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Maize, is rich in symbolic meaning across cultures. It represents abundance, fertility, and the life cycle. it embodies unity in diversity and as a staple food, it symbolizes sustenance and the vital role of agriculture in communities. Additionally, it signifies cyclical patterns in life, emphasizing the eternal cycle of nature. Often featured in harvest festivals, Indian corn celebrates hard work, prosperity, and gratitude. 🌽

Noted this while looking for inappropriate memes.

Going to hang on to this one.

Winners of the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023 - 12 of this year's winning and honored images, showcasing some of the best photography of our natural world.

theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/

A while back I thought it would be cool to make a moss "stage" to photo my pretty little pillbugs on, but my model spent most of her time quickly trying to escape rather than exploring the lush green landscape.

Gotta give a shout out to my wife, @ShazzaRazza who's spent all day making these amazing paper craft deccies. The bat tree almost drove her mad, but that witch (that she's sending to my Mum) is gorgeous 🖤 🦇 🎃

I made a little arrangement with things from my garden.🍃🍂

Some years ago some old friends of mine decided to quit their original band that was just playing pub & local venues and formed a tribute, named The Mersey Beatles (they actually supported my band before doing covers and now my keyboard player plays keys with them). They've ended up traveling around the world doing this and have had some great times.

Last night they played one of their biggest gigs, to 20,000 people in our hometown of . ❤️

Alchemy sought to turn lead into gold.

The real alchemy is taking a nasty-ass avocado and turning it into the culinary masterpiece that is a really good guacamole.

By the way, a word about Bob. Bob is no mere Halloween decoration. They are a replica. A look at their teeth shows this is the casting of someone who has donated their body for art and science, to educate us, to give us something to hold of the true structure within us. I love that Bob will celebrate Halloween with me. I should put candy in their mouth.

2/2 She was found growing in a gallon of live red/purple sphagnum moss, which also deepens in strong light. Mine is still green. Most of it died during the various setbacks of the last couple of years, but a few growing crowns will hopefully establish with my improved setup. The quartz marks a special clump of moss, a pinch of haircap moss from Walden pond.

As promised, a better photo exploration of Celia. Let me show you why I occasionally give her a little kiss. She is an open pollinated hybrid, mostly veinless, though her smaller (older) pitchers are developing some veins as they deepen to the hues of autumn leaves. The mostly green leaves are ones that developed during periods of poor lighting, but the spring green has a nice golden tone that is still lovely. 1/2

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