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Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), ‘Still life with melon on a plate, grapes and a snail’ Via: https://artslife.com/2020/06/08/viva-e-palpitante-natura-la-pittura-seicentesca-di-giovanna-garzoni-in-mostra-a-firenze/

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Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) Via: https://www.intoscana.it/it/challenge-giovanna-garzoni/

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Bright red sky after a storm when I was working at Walmart a few years ago. Still one of my favorite pictures

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newfoundland, 1970-71, by sam abell

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Emil M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, from "The Temptation To Exist,"

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Mossy portraits, Sweden.

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Fidencio Fifield-Perez (Mexican, d.o.b. unknown) - The Garden (2023)

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Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after a Pasqua First Nation man's braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital. Eve Adams went in May to visit her husband, Dexter Adams, at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital and found the 84-year-old's braids, his eagle feather and some medicine in a garbage can. He had been deemed at a high risk of falling and was in hospital waiting for a space to open in a long-term care facility. He died just over a month later.

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Imagine a pinecone as heavy as a bowling ball and the size of a chihuahua. Believe it or not, such pinecones exist—and they belong to the coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), a conifer that can be found in parts of North America including California and Mexico. Infamous among loggers and foresters, this tree is nicknamed "the widowmaker" because of the unlucky individuals who met their fate as a result of its falling pinecones. This species produces some of the largest pinecones on the planet, weighing up to 11 lbs (5 kg).

Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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Morning Kitchen - Jon Bolles , 2023.

American , b. ? Oil on canvas , 24 x 30 in .

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by Jonathan Duriaux

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February is hard. Every year I forget how hard it is and end up feeling kicked in the face. But I have friends - spiritual and human. I have allies in the plant world that I know can help me navigate my way through this. Meet a few of these allies: eastern white pine, lemon, garlic, onion, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, horseradish, hot pepper, and honey.

That’s right, it’s time to make another batch of fire cider. It turns out that during a pandemic, we consume a lot more of it than normal.

All of these (minus the honey) went into apple cider vinegar yesterday. These kind of old folk remedies work very well for me and my household - they taste good, boost our immune system, and can be easily enchanted as a protection potion to ward off illness or as a banishment potion when illness has already found us. We like to mix out fire cider 1:1 with a good whiskey (preferably rye).

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Winter Sun - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting

Dutch , 1898-1994

Linocut on paper , 38.3 x 50 cm. Ed. 75.

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Jesse Zuo aka 左晨霄 aka Chenxiao Zuo aka Chxzuo (Chinese, b. 2000, Beijing, China, based New York, NY, USA) - Leather & Sandal Wood, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Panel

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Alpine Meadow by Nate

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Anne Gudrun