When I drove harvest truck and combine in the summer, we used to entertain es ch other with buckwheat jukes. Carry un, citizen!

Buckwheat gone bad? Buckwheat is our friend!

Roseate Spoonbills.

📸: Jorja Feldman.

Photographer Mark Smith captures an amazing moment where an osprey emerges from the ocean clawed onto its prey

Apparently beer is an analgesic, and he’s had a few.

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Great landscape photo with an ornamental oriental

I think quirky alien creatures will spark the second wave of alien antagonists, Trouble is maintaining our cool, and not attacking every alien civilization. These guys. are cute!

« The first extant documentary mention of a celebration of Jesus’ birth […] appears in the Chronograph of 354. Thus, by 354, […] Christians in Rome were celebrating Jesus’ Nativity on December 25. In choosing the date of December 25 to celebrate the birth of Jesus, Christians placed this annual observance right in the middle of three wildly popular preexisting Roman winter festivals.

 Perhaps they wanted to co-opt the popularity of the existing winter parties in order to promote the acceptance of Christianity among more people. Perhaps they disapproved of how wild the parties were and hoped that adding a Christian celebration would tame them. […] Whatever the motivations, Christians gave an overlay of Christian meaning to some preexisting winter festivities. An important implication of this narrative is that when Christians finally initiated an annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, it was from the very beginning a combination of a winter cultural party and a Christian observance. The historian Stephen Nissenbaum offers a very articulate summary of the complicated repercussions:

“The decision was part of what amounted to a compromise, and a compromise for which the Church paid a high price… . In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been. From the beginning, the Church’s hold over Christmas was (and remains still) rather tenuous. There were always people for whom Christmas was a time of pious devotion rather than carnival, but such people were always in the minority. It may not be going too far to say that Christmas has always been an extremely difficult holiday to Christianize.” »

— Religion and Popular Culture in America, ed. Bruce David Forbes & Jeffrey Mahan

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Herbology Lesson in Hogwarts by Midjourney AI

prompt: inside fantasy orangery, victorian, magic plants, hogwarts students, mandrake, fireflies

Niagta Falls from Julia17 on Reddit.

Would not have thought that a card trick with three cards could be so well performed.

Image of northern lights I shot in Senja, Norway 2 weeks ago [1000 x 1500] [OC] - Author: gudelaune on Reddit