French gardians (”cowboys”) from Aigues-Mortes, Camargue, a protected area between swamps, rice fields, salt marshes and sea in south of France, showing their skill with semi-wild bulls, protecting a tourist who didn’t realise he wasn’t in the safest place.
Painting from a thriller television show hosted by Rod Serling called The Sixth Sense (1972). The painting was later used in the episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery (1973).
I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.
He stops and looks both ways?!?
You wanna know what makes this better?
Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.
[Image ID: Two vertical columns of panels in four horizontal rows. Flow between panels follow the left to right, top to bottom writing order. First panel shows red rust colored filaments with the phrase ‘I am a fungus’ with the second panel shows teal colored globules with the phrase 'I am an algae’, these colors are consistent for both fungi and algae throughout the panels. The third panels shows the fungus filaments and algae globules in parallel with the phrase 'We sure are very different’ with the fourth panel showing them intermixed with the phrase 'But we’ve got a few things in common’. The fifth panel shows algae and the sun with the phrase 'I can offer you sustenance’ with the sixth panel showing fungus sheltering algae in it’s filaments with the phrase 'I can offer you shelter’. The seventh panel shows predominantly algae interlaid with fungi with the phrase 'Our secret is simple’ with the eighth panel showing predominantly fungi with interlaced algae with the phrase 'Easy to miss’. Below the two columns after the eight total panels is a double-wide panel showing a field of the combined fungi and algae, referred to as lichen with the phrase 'Yet it endures’. End ID]
Here is a link to the Wikipedia article for Lichen as supplement:
this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
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