Despite being scary and medical and reminding me of hospitals, this picture is still kind of beautiful. It has a weird under-the-sea vibe, I think. Or maybe it’s the hues (green and gold is maybe the prettiest pairing of colors). Can we make up a genre? Luminescent scifi? Life support chic?
Anyway, much more importantly, this is a picture of a garden.
Wait, what?
There’s a forest outside Hokubo Town, Japan where fireflies gather and swarm. The light show begins at 8 p.m. and is seriously magical. It’s so magical I don’t even feel cheesy calling it magical. Lovely.
Naturally, I had to make this the background to my computer… Continue reading
Here’s a neat mystery: There is a place in Poland called the “Crooked Forest,” where all the trees bend and curve, forming crescent shapes and some pretty pronounced S-swerves. Though they’re pretty sure it is a man-made phenomenon—created by applying restraints to pin down the trees after just seven years of growth—no one is really clear as to why some farmer needed a grove of oddly-shaped pines. The enigmatic wood was planted sometime in the 1930s, and has been growing all cockeyed ever since.
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It must be so much fun to be the kind of scientist who makes snowflakes all day. I would like to do that.
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Katy Kelleher 