ishida:

technohell:

Knitted mandrake.  Seriously want, lol.

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themystic50:

the changeling by ~bubug

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peace-love-whales:

cetaceancaitlin:

tank-commander:

This is not okay.

What’s not okay is this comparison.  Those elephants are most likely trained to do this behavior by physical force and extreme food deprivation. When is the last time in modern years (since more has been found out about the intelligence of cetaceans) that you’ve seen either of those things done to train orcas?  Oh, never? That’s because it doesn’t happen.  If these elephants are performing for any company I’m familiar with, they are abused on a daily basis.  Orcas are not.

But we’re using all of these animals for OUR entertainment. In both instances they don’t necessarily have a choice. They were plucked from their habitats, their homes, and forced to do this. Yes, the orcas are treated better than the elephants but that doesn’t mean that its right. 

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Working/trabajando/lapageria G.MacKinnon

Lapageria rosea 💚

myampgoesto11:

Beautifully designed traditional Japanese Kanzashi hair ornaments by Sakae

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smithsonianlibraries:

The cherry blossoms are fading, but the tulips are starting to bloom here in DC, and in our seed and nursery catalog collection.

Beautiful!

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Philesia magellanica, work in progress. Geraldine MacKinnon 2013

compendium-of-beasts:

Der Panterausbruch, Walton Ford, 2011

Matthew Wills

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nictitating:

props to Google (and my parents) for reminding me that today is the 366th birthday of Maria Sibylla Merian! when I think back, she is the one who really opened my eyes to the field of science illustration, after a serendipitous trip to the Getty in 2008 first introduced me to her…

Lovely to have on my desk this book with 10 of my illustrations in it! Great!

My worms, ugly but oh so generous!