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Ficus tree along the garden pathway at Thomas Edison's winter home in Fort Myers, Florida, year unknown. Edison, who first came to Fort Myers around 1885 for a series of “working vacations,” developed here one of the most extensive tropical botanical gardens in the United States.
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"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue."
—Aldous Huxley
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Ancient Egyptian hedgehog, blue-green faience, circa 1938-1700 BC.
📷 Brooklyn Museum brooklynmuseum.org/opencolle…
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Even a person
free of passion would be
moved to sadness:
autumn evening in a marsh
where snipe fly up."
― Saigyo (trans. Burton Watson)
[images: Koson Ohara/ Hasui Kawase]
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Clay hedgehog-shaped vessel, attributed to the Neolithic Xiaoheyan culture, Nambaoligatu type, dated between 3000-2000 BC. Unearthed at the Nambaoligatu site in Zhalute Banner, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia.
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Another cracking shot this time of a cheetah backlit with the sun set. Credit to Burrard-Lucas.
































