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Turn your garden into a bee haven with these common plants :)

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else

Les Brown (via beinchargeofyourlife)

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When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Mary Kay Ash (via beinchargeofyourlife)

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maidenhair ferns, lake cushman area hike

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Live a little while.

(Sleeping Dinosaur, Badas, Mati City, PH)

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february nightscapes

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Original painting this is based on (http://mei-xing.tumblr.com/image/110853837508) by http://mei-xing.tumblr.com/

92 colors (34 without the reflection), 218x346px

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Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Hag stones, also known as Holey Stones or Witch Stones, are stones that have a naturally occurring hole and are usually found near oceans and other bodies of water. They are said to be powerful protection talismans, and when worn or carried they protect the bearer from curses, hexes, negative spirits, and harm. They have also been used to prevent nightmares, being strung on a bedpost or placed underneath pillows. It is also believed that if you peer through the hole of the stone that you can see the Fae Folk and otherworldly entities. If one broke, it is thought to have used its power to protect a life. 

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The Art Of Madame’s House - Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

“I’d like that delivered to a person named Kiki, because she did a big favor for me the other day.  It's my way of saying “Thank you’.  I’d also be happy if at the same time you would find out her birthday. Then I can bake another cake…” - Madame.

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Gilda Radner (via beinchargeofyourlife)

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Summer and peppers are here. My first pepper sighting of the year is Buena Mulata - one of many beautiful varieties that local artist Horace Pippin brought from the black catering communities of Baltimore and Philadelphia to share with William Woys Weaver’s grandfather, H. Ralph Weaver in the early 1940s. It is a hot cayenne type that starts purple, then goes through changes: salmon, orange, brown, red! Grateful to the Roughwood Seed Collection for preserving so many incredible heirlooms that are connected to such important histories. #roughwoodseedcollection #buenamulatapepper #pippinpepper #horacepippin #williamwoysweaver #seedkeeping

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I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.

Erin Van (via dontkillthefaeries)

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