#bigger trees

[dinosaurwithablog]

I love the cars!! The entrance to the park looks so lonely compared to what it looks like now. Trees grow a lot in 100 years. 😁 It's a beautiful arch, isn't it? I used to go to this park a lot in the 70s and 80s. I love the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It's always a great time!!!

E.O. Hoppe. Washington Square Park. 1920s

[windpeakofficial]

does anyone have a quick fix for the water not loading in bug?

[ryllen]

do u know that even the size of the different size of vegetables at another country amazed me because from where i came from they are all smaller and scrawnier

[may12324]

Sabran and the White Wyrm - from The Priory of the Orange Tree.

[tradingjack]

citrus trees are odd. like why are they allowed to happen?? wild

[da-janela-lateral]

To be part of something big.

[hickeygender]

reblog for a bigger sample size of former angry, creative, and/or highly dramatic children

[petrichara]

Hmm thinking about old friends. I still do my lipstick the way you taught me, look for your face in every crowd, start to tell a story and feel your name die in my mouth. No amount of anger erases the way we hid in the trees as kids, how you’d run to the door hands full with my favourite sweets. Your smile is my picture of happiness, name the first I learned to write.

[horny4hetfield]

Hey Santa! I've been a very good girl! Please see above for my wish list!!

[maculategiraffe]

nice little mental health moment just now where I was feeling really relaxed and contented and then started getting anxious like you do that if I'm feeling relaxed and contented it means something irreparably catastrophic and painful that is also completely my fault is just about to happen unless I can think of what it might be in time to avert it. right. NOW!!

and my brain sort of kicked on its little "imagine all imaginable catastrophes as thoroughly as possible in order to magically avert them" protocol but just as it was gearing up I was like "wait that's silly. and, actually, counterproductive. like that's actually using up energy in fretting that I would need for real stuff if a real catastrophe happened. if there IS something awful about to happen then aren't I better off relaxing and recharging and replenishing my strength now so I can deal with it when it happens, rather than trying to avert it with magical thinking, which does not work all that reliably and is also absolutely exhausting?"

and the terror circuits like. powered back down. like in this kind of cute dejected "well, if you say so, boss" kind of way. and I just went on back to feeling relaxed and contented 😁

[meadowlarkx]

“...and its jewels and its webs and its things painted and carven…”

For @tolkienekphrasisweek day 1, Ceramics and Glasswork. I always love the thought of items washed up onshore in Middle-earth when Númenor sinks.

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

2024 Lone Star Christmas Tree

2023 version here

Close ups of new ornaments and more pictures of the tree under the cut!

Tree close ups:

Last year's post includes links to see close ups of the ornaments, and I added 6 new ornaments to my collection for this year's tree:

[keydekyie]

"Don't run. Never run. No matter how frightened you are."

"But, then... what can you do? How can one fight... that?"

"Stand your ground. Look them dead in the eye."

"That will stop them?"

"No. But they'll have to live with themselves, and perhaps the next one will be luckier."

[wizardlyghost]

thing about deltora quest that only occurred to me in hindsight is not only just how much jasmine carries the entire party on this quest but also how genre-defyingly brutal she is lol. like, this is a kid's series that hinges on riddles and puzzles far more heavily than combat - even when deaths occur, they're often the result of cleverness in some way rather than straight up combat ability. that said, let's look at the villain kill count at the end of book five of eight of the first series:

- lief: 1 - even there it's with a well-thrown bottle of cursed water rather than his sword.

- barda: 0 - i'm not counting that one unnamed sand beast, that's an animal not a villain.

- filli: 0 - he is a squirrel, this is unsurprising.

- kree: 1 - killed an invincible sorceress all by himself, good bird best friend.

- jasmine: 5 - dropped a tree branch on a mf, drowned two cannibals in quicksand, cut a giant snake's throat, shoved a dude down a pipe full of toxic mold (after having to be told not to cut his throat while he slept jfc).

idk it just suddenly struck me as really funny how this one character who isn't the protagonist is almost from a different, far more brutal story, and uses that fact to consistently be the mvp and save everyone else's asses. i need to read this series again it's been too long.

[seabeck]

I need to trim the shit out of my fig tree. Or maybe just cut it down. It never makes ripe fruit and it blocks the view out of my window. I gave it a really good trimming in hopes that would make it make ripe fruit but once again it just makes green fruit that rot on the limbs because they never get ripe.