A bird in my hands, bourbon to my head

Winter wolf syndrome

You can’t just touch someone’s life and be done with it. Pushing Daisies — 1.01 ‘Pie-lette’

Yes. You. You get it. 

“Most dangerous monster? Well, vampires are pretty easy–just carry pencils. Ghosts are mostly irritants, werewolves collapse at silver, and dragons keep to themselves… Naw, it’s one no one expects. It’s–”

these are the same picture just on opposite sides of the spectrum

I dont think we give dogs enough credit for how brave they are for going face-first down the stairs

Never thought about this salute to the troops

Either way, he saw Jesus.

JESSE EMERY'S SARAH RYAN CUSTOM

Janet Fish (American, b. 1938), Honey Jars, 1971. Oil on canvas, 66 ¼ x 54 ½ in.

Phyllis Shafer’s landscapes make me fucking insane

Octopus Sculptures

Sahasa on Etsy

Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 05 “Grasslands” Directed by Chadden Hunter

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

They existed *before beetles*

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

https://xkcd.com/1259/

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post: