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Satellites of Soap
Nature

Satellites of Soap

From household materials, a new night sky. The emptiness around us mirrors the emptiness within

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Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment
Optical Illusions and Effects

Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment

For the month of February I am using only candles for light at night. I

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An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal
Color Blindness Non-human animals Optical Illusions and Effects

An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal

I have an animal within who can see at night. And so do you. Humans

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Ancient Life and Modern Love at the Center of a Geode
Geodes

Ancient Life and Modern Love at the Center of a Geode

I have been sanding through an enhydro agate geode for over a year, slowly wearing

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Searching for Scorpions at Night
Non-human animals

Searching for Scorpions at Night

To get close enough to a wild scorpion to take its photo is scary: the Arizona

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The Shimmering Slime Drawings of Snails and Slugs
Non-human animals

The Shimmering Slime Drawings of Snails and Slugs

It’s hard not to notice crushed snails on sidewalks. But I usually didn’t notice the

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The Flower-Popping Power of Purple Lenses
Color Blindness

The Flower-Popping Power of Purple Lenses

To see things differently doesn’t always mean seeing more. Limiting the senses– a candlelight dinner,

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Rainbows in the Dark
Cameras Optical Illusions and Effects

Rainbows in the Dark

Nighttime isn’t colorful, and was even less so in the days before artificial lighting. Human

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Stare at the Flame // Light the Candle With Your Mind
Optical Illusions and Effects

Stare at the Flame // Light the Candle With Your Mind

As part of my continuing experiments in visual perception, I set out to create a

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Timelapsing the Timekeepers of the Sky
Cameras

Timelapsing the Timekeepers of the Sky

No matter what happens during the night, the sun always returns. Pretty much every human

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Learning How To See, created by artist Emily Wick in 2016, chronicles a quest to literally see the world in new ways. Its projects have been featured on KQED Arts and Medium.

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Soap bubble at night, November Soap bubble at night, November
Soap bubbles at sunset 💄🍬🎀 #sunset #bubb Soap bubbles at sunset 💄🍬🎀

#sunset #bubbles #soapbubbles
Heart-shaped soap bubble Heart-shaped soap bubble
✨🌈Soap bubble at night, November. 🌈✨ ✨🌈Soap bubble at night, November. 🌈✨
Airport moonrise Airport moonrise
Bubbles with pipettes, Vermont #bubbles Bubbles with pipettes, Vermont 

#bubbles
Soap bubbles in a snow shower, Sunday night 🌲💫 #vermont #snowing #bubbles #shine #reflection
Soap bubble at night, November 🍂🌲 #bubbles Soap bubble at night, November 🍂🌲 

#bubbles #shine #foam
Soap bubbles at sunset, Thanksgiving 2023 🌲 La Soap bubbles at sunset, Thanksgiving 2023 🌲

Last pic edited by my niece Siena @omgsuperkitty
Soap bubbles in the snow 🍧🌈💫 Quechee, Ve Soap bubbles in the snow 🍧🌈💫

Quechee, Vermont 

#soapbubbles #iridescence  #liminalspaces
🧪🚧🚥🔦🪡Soap bubble at night, November 🧪🚧🚥🔦🪡Soap bubble at night, November 

#neon #neonsign
🪨👛🍬🧸🛰️ Soap bubble at dusk Swipe 🪨👛🍬🧸🛰️
Soap bubble at dusk
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Monday morning light Monday morning light
Bougainvillea is a thorny ornamental plant with br Bougainvillea is a thorny ornamental plant with brightly-colored papery bracts. It thrives in Mediterranean, desert, and tropical climates around the world. 

Living in the San Francisco Bay Area without a car, I don’t often visit California’s large-scale natural wonders. 

I do, however, take frequent walks around my Oakland neighborhood and enjoy its many front-yard gardens. 

This is the third of three videos I am creating in response to the @fjallravenofficial polar challenge. Fjallraven is selecting twenty people for a trip to the Arctic Circle. 

#FjallravenPolar2024 #Challenge3 is about making nature your neighbor and inspiring others to do so. 
#bougainvillea
Seven years ago, I purchased a small linen bath to Seven years ago, I purchased a small linen bath towel at a factory outlet of a luxury brand.

It didn’t look like anything fancy—in fact, it was almost aggressively rustic in the way that finer items sometimes are. I thought I was crazy for buying it.

I soon discovered why we don’t dry dishes with terry cloth towels. A linen towel is like a dish towel for your body.

A few months later, I had saved up for the larger version. I was so excited that I wore them in my Facebook profile picture. I wanted my life to revolve around linen towels: something so simple that made each shower special.

I had never thought of a bath towel in the same category as something I’d ever have an emotional attachment to. It is always with me on the adventure that is daily life. 

This is my second entry for the Fjallraven polar challenge. @fjallravenofficial #challenge2 #fjallravenpolar2024 

Towels by @anichiniofficial. Not an ad!!
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