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"Esto le sucedía de igual manera al lobo estepario. Habitualmente era muy desdichado, eso no puede negarse, y también podía hacer miserables a otros, en particular si los amaba y ellos a él. Dado que quienes le tomaban afecto, no veían nunca en él más que uno de los dos lados. Algunos lo querían como hombre distinguido, talentoso y excepcional y se quedaban decepcionados cuando de repente descubrían en él al lobo. Y esto era irremisible, pues Harry quería, como toda criatura, ser amado en su totalidad y no podía, por lo mismo, primordialmente ante ellos cuyo afecto le importaba mucho, ocultar al lobo y rechazarlo. Pero igualmente había otros que justamente amaban en él al lobo, particularmente a lo natural, bestial, ingobernable, peligroso y violento, y a éstos, a su vez, les producía una asombrosa desilusión y tristeza que espontáneamente el feroz y malvado lobo fuera también un hombre que tuviera dentro de sí afanes de generosidad y de ternura y quisiera asimismo escuchar a Mozart, leer versos y tener ideales de humanidad..."

Herman Hesse

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by Rodolphe Tavernaro

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Tumblr se ha convertido en la conversación más larga que he sostenido conmigo misma.

Efimera Lunar Intemporal

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Sculptures at St. Isaak’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, are silhouetted by the rising full moon. Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky

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I’ve returned to my old addictions. I read until my eyes hurt, I write until my words embarrassed me.

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feeling like pure shit i just want to be a person in an anne magill painting😔

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“A Backyard Near Metro Kropotkinskaya” by V. Kachanov (1979)

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(via)

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Instagram: co.nfused

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A Starling and Cowbird Feathursday

The Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) are sometimes considered “problem” birds. The Common Starling, which in America is an invasive species, is brash, aggressive, and prolific, and can have a negative impact on native bird populations. 

The Brown-headed Cowbird does not raise its own brood but rather parasitizes the nests of smaller birds, often to the detriment of the host’s own brood. Very sneaky. On top of that, Cowbirds periodically check on their eggs and young, and if the parasitic egg has been removed, the Cowbird will engage in retaliatory actions known as “mafia behavior” by ransacking and sometimes completely destroying the host’s nest. Just nasty.

Despite the boorish behavior of both species, we just can’t help being delighted when we see them, especially adult male Starlings during breeding season, with their iridescent purples and greens and their long strings of melodic, mechanical, and even liquidly-sounding calls. The image shown here is a reproduction of a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber from Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. 

The birds at top of the painting are a young male Starling (right) and a breeding adult male; at center, a juvenile Starling and a juvenile Cowbird; at bottom, adult male and female Cowbirds.  

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obsessed with my mom's overgrown rose bush 🌹

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Il fiore dell’estate 🌻(Tuscany, Italy) | maxlazzi

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Montmartre sunrise

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The weather was quite rainy for our camping trip earlier this week, but I did manage to photograph some pretty wild daisies. Raindrops always make flowers look so fragile.

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Galiba film yıkattım. 

Evet.