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#continuing to cicada post as if a good quarter to third of you aren't experiencing this exact emergence #astralpost #bugs #id in alt

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Made a prototype for the needle felted moths program I'm planning for spring. Only gave myself 90 minutes to work on it because that's how long the class is. I'll definitely encourage the students to work smaller than I did, though, since this one is large even compared to real luna moths. Now I want to make a whole flock of these.

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Huge 750 years old sequoia tree, California. Photo: Michael Nick Nichols

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Not to sound slutty but I would fold your laundry for you

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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.

(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)

In any case.

BEHOLD!

A wool coat!

The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.

Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.

This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.

Thank you for your attention.

#fashion

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cicadas, al usa, april 2024

#bug time

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In bloom

Folsom, CA.

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My friend is trying to name herself, and she's like, "Oh, what's that name that's like marmalade, but it's a name?" and I know she means Adelaide, but I think I can talk her into naming herself Marmalade if I play my cards right here.

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lieutenant and officer (inspired by this iconic photograph)

/ id: a digital drawing coloured with a watercolour effect. two men in seventeenth-century military attire are standing against a simple landscape background with a border of flowers and swords; an army is visible in the distance. one man is kneeling at the other’s feet in the act of adjusting his boot, and is looking up at him from beneath the brim of his hat. the standing man is looking down at him with a slight smile. there is a charged tension in the way they meet one another’s eyes. end id. /

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Josef Stoitzner - Farm house with pumpkins, Burgenland (ca. 1935)

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beetle table <3 maple, white oak, walnut

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I was watching a stream of a small waterhole in the namib desert. a warthog showed up started bathing in the waterhole and turning the drinkable water into mud. this INFURIATED chat. everyone was pissed on behalf of the oryxes. the power of technology is incredible

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could not get a good picture of all of them together but. turkey vulture black vulture and mississippi kites

kites are for sure feasting on cicadas. seemed like maybe the vultures are taking advantage of the opportunity as well but idk for sure. additionally the turkey vultures are regulars but the black vulture just showed up a week or so ago which is exciting i hope he sticks around and there are apparently more than two kites but at least one pair has been building a nest in my yard so i'm also hoping they stay here for the season

#anyway life remains beautiful as long as i'm outside and 100% focused on the creatures in front of me #the horrors can't get me if i'm looking at a bird #astralpost

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Hunter's Moon