Ukulele Consultant and Ego Kabuki Critic.
Tapwater Jackson has been performing lobotomies with a broken ketchup bottle since 1953.
Occasionally, I am tapwaterj at gmail dot com. But, really, so what?
“Scientists thought butterflies were deaf until 1912 when the first butterfly ears were identified. Only in the past decade or so have researchers examined the anatomy and physiology of butterfly ears, which they are finding to be quite diverse and present in several butterfly species.”
From TYWKIWDBI
Rivers forming tree-like figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico. A National Geographic photo by Adriana Franco
Snow Drawings, Rabbit Ears Pass, CO, 2012 — Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen
Slices of Silence
Monochrome Squares, Nathan Wirth
Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death
From the New York Times: It is a living fossil whose ancestors go back a half billion years — to the early days of complex life on the planet, when the land was barren and the seas were warm.
Intersections, a portfolio in progress, by Alessandro Puccinelli
Frozen Bubbles, Abraham Lake, by Emmanuel Coupe Kalomiris — Landscape photographer of the Year 2009/2010.
Kenai Fjords National Park
From: Most Beautiful National Parks Seen From Space
Slartibartfast comes to mind.
This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.
NATURA SERIES — Photographs by Carlos Plaza
“Every few years, for a few fleeting days, when conditions are just right, these otherwise arid lands burst into color with carpets of flowering Scorpionweed and Beeplant. Caineville, Utah.”
Guy Tal
Museum of Natural History Berlin Part 2, Olli Feichtinger
Brahmin Moth. Photo Igor Siwanowicz. Via Tai-wiki-widbee
