I Love Flax! And It Does So Well Pressed And Preserved.

I love flax! And it does so well pressed and preserved.

A collection of Very. Good boi. SNEKS!

I have been down a bit lately and your blog brings me so much joy. I don't suppose you have any good pictures of rat snakes being just silly goofy guys? I love them. (Colubrids in general are just Very Good Snakes and I love the ones we've got here in Ohio.)

GOOFY RAT SNAKE EH???

Here are some leucistic Texas and Black Rat Snakes being goofuses...

photograph by RodentPro.com, LLC

photograph by underground reptiles

photograph by Anthony Caponetto

It's exciting to learn something new every day!

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

Need to know!

i feel like i'm watching a car crash in slow motion

Kyiv-based artist Alexey Kondakov uses surrealistic documentary photography to superimpose figures from classical artwork into everyday scenes of modern life. He is renowned for his Photoshopped collage series in which Kyiv, Ukraine served as the backdrop for characters from old world masterpieces. The artist merges the past and the present, showing with a deft eye how classical figures fit seamlessly into contemporary situations that, in themselves, are timeless.

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.