spectrum of light.

i've seen 4 rainbows in the past 2 weeks. good things are happening.

{by helmut smits

via todayandtomorrow}

flower nest.

a tiny nest made by a recently discovered and rare type of bee. built by plastering together petals from the flower onobrychis viciifolia. each nest usually houses a single egg and is a half inch long.

{via npr}

the beast & the butterfly.

when the sun hits.

nabokov collecting butterflies.

what wonder.

sometimes i forget just how amazing the world is and it's really cool when i get a reminder.

hemlock.

i am so so so so so in love with this.

{via beautiful paper}

orphisme.

current inspiration: sonia delaunay.

{via the textile blog}

the last thylacine.

the last known motion picture footage taken of a living thylacine, a now extinct carnivorous marsupial. just a few seconds of black-and-white footage of the animal pacing backwards and forwards in its enclosure, taken in 1933, three years before it's death from exposure and neglect. ugh. how could people be so terrible to a beautiful tiger-dog with a pouch??

{via paul pincus/even cleaveland}

sparks.

i would love to have a pocketful of whatever these wonderful things are.

{via alaskan eyes}

pale clouded light.

photographer blake gordon has documented the effects of light from buildings on low hanging clouds.

{via BLDG}

ring-a-ling-thing.

every since i saw this druzy ring over at bleach black i've been trying to find one for myself. unfortunatly i have tiny baby hands. boo.

lay down {candles in the rain}.

andy goldsworthy's rain shadow.

flowers of a hundred generations.

simplicity is beautiful. momoyogusa's mount fuji.

{via nevver}

merry monday.

this is my lil christmas tree. decorated in a classy silver and blue color scheme. i wish that it made sense to have evergreens inside all year because it makes the living room smell so nice!

here comes the sun.

sundial snail, found off the coast of the tiny south pacific island espiritu santo.

{found at national geographic}

searching the shore.

jim denevan makes freehand drawings in sand. sometimes art is pretty neat.

{found via booooom}

papillon crochet.

i love these hand crocheted butterflies from oeuf nyc. it's all the beauty of nature without actually having dead things in your house.

{found via oh joy}

crystal caves.

the largest crystals in on earth, formed in an underground cave in mexico. the longest crystal measures 37.4 feet and likely began growing some 600,000 years ago! intense.

{found at national geographic via manny d}

park pattern.

kris found inspiration in nature. i love the result!

daily space.

there are quite a few webpages that i visit daily. one of them is the astronomy picture of the day.

this picture of ice halos around the sun is today picture, but you can check through their archive for images dating back through 1995. another favorite is the nebula archive on spacetelescope.org which is the european homepage for the hubble telescope.