Without a doubt, the most spectacular aurora of the year in the Canadian Rockies of 2019 happened early on the 5th of August. Because we are nearing the minimum of the current solar cycle, it’s been a very quiet year for northern lights at the mid-latitudes. That long, colourful, powerful display made up for an otherwise lacklustre aurora year.
Shot this bright moment at Cascade Meadows, Banff National Park. I opted to phone home at that point and wake up my wife, who in turn woke up our daughters and guests. Everyone gathered on the back porch to take in the show!
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As per tradition, in late December I like to take some time to reflect on my most special moments in photography from this past year. The posts are in no particular order, nor do they necessarily consist of images that resonated with the public. They are all photographs that got me engaged creatively and that depict special moments in the wilderness. I hope you enjoy the images. Thanks to all of you who have supported me all year long. Your presence here is much appreciated and so is every comment. Feel free to share the images. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2RYhDCQ
There were probably some medieval asexuals that were absolutely insufferable on their moral high horse about it. Like "this modesty shit easy - I haven't lusted over any man ever in my life and only fuck my husband out of duty from God and only so that we have children. I am so much better than any of you hoes."
And some other local goodwife would get sick of this and go "well obviously you don't have time for cock, Maergaret, since you're always too fucking busy choking on your own vanity and pride!" and have a smackfight that progresses into a full-on two-woman brawl in the town square. People gather around to watch this until a clergyman shows up to remind everyone that not only is this kind of brawl between good christians definitely a sin, it's also a sin for everyone who's watching to place bets on who's going to win.
online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.
and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.
there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.
i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.
The Kelpie Pond by Jaimie Whitbread
guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff
(i literally got my kindle for the sole purpose of being able to read fics Not On My Phone)
Life is just a ferris wheel
Ashridge, Hertfordshire, England by DavidRBadger
i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you
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