The Raptor
Instant message to a colleague just now about a vision I had. Okay, not so much a vision as it was something I actually saw:
After you left
A hawk appeared unto me.
Well, unto K. actually.
And lo,
it was partaking of the mice of the fields
and was distracted.
And we were able to behold it
whilst worshiping at its talons.
And graven images were recorded by my camera
while standing in your cubicle, which provided the best view.
Amen.
If any of these images turn out, I’ll post them.
Still life
I think that in the most predictable and unsubtle way, things are starting to get better around here as spring approaches.
An electrical plant
“There is something wonderfully unsettling about a plant that feasts on animals. Perhaps it is the way it shatters all expectation. Carl Linnaeus, the great 18th-century Swedish naturalist who devised our system for ordering life, rebelled at the idea. For Venus flytraps to actually eat insects, he declared, would go ‘against the order of nature as willed by God.’ The plants only catch insects by accident, he reasoned, and once a hapless bug stopped struggling, the plant would surely open its leaves and let it go free.”
[via]
Cryosphere
“The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occurring on the Earth’s glacial ice. The EIS team has installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia.”
Lots more here.
