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Magic Dogwood is an unusual Mexican subspecies of Cornus Florida which is very sought-after for its large leaves and especially for its very unusual welded-together bracts reminiscent of Chinese lanterns.

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CHARLES FRÉGER

http://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/lepopee-de-jeanne-darc/

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Plate VI. Shells and coral. Thesaurus anatomicus primus. Het eerste cabinet der dieren. v.2. 1744. 

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Painted birds by Kristin Magnúsdóttir. The World of Interiors, March 2024. Photo - Mikael Lundblad

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Albert Joseph Moore (English, 1841–1893) A Garden 1869 oil on canvas, 85 × 173 cm

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in my map reading final exam back in like 2015 we had to do an indoor portion where we figured out the location of our professor on a topographical map and then we had to go out into the national forest with the map & compass and actually locate him to pass. like he was just standing out in the forest and it was pass-or-fail, find him or don’t.

we went in pairs so i was hiking through the woods with this guy who’d been in my class all semester but we didn’t talk much but now ofc we got to chatting, being in the woods and all.

and he told me he’d just moved from a city on the other side of the state and i was like “oh that’s funny i just moved from there too!” we talked a little more and within two minutes determined we didn’t just move from the same city, but had in fact been working at the same petsmart for over a year, at the same time, but he worked in the dog hotel and i worked in the grooming salon so we never met. months, 40 yards from each other, separated by two walls, and we never had a conversation.

and now we were in a national forest together following a map looking for a guy named Ron. what the hell.

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A ptarmigan falls to a fox. The living forest. 1925. Arthur Heming, illus.

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When the wifi goes out

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The term and concept of "rent lowering gunshots" has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I've welcomed it there. Something I'm up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you're not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.

You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.

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A-Ok, A-Ok, I chant to myself while wandering the drug store, trying to desperately remember which pain killer I can take despite this being a thing I've been dealing with for years.

Anyway, guess who still ended up picking up a bottle of ibuprofen they can't use because the A stood for acetaminophen, not advil.

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Alexis Mata — "Fata Morgana" (oil on canvas, 2023)

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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

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Cake Finches - Suzan Visser , 2016.

Dutch, b. 1967 -

Oil on panel , 26.5 x 23 cm