geneticist:

The saying ‘you are what you eat’ is true for these insects as stunning pictures show their abdomens changing colour as they sip on sugar drops.Mohamed Babu set up the photographs after his wife showed him some ants had turned white after drinking spilt milk. He gave the creatures the brightly coloured sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating. (Via)

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After two years of renovations, back in business. (at Echo Park Lake)

Shuttle butt

arpeggia:

Otto Bettmann - Walking Violin in Philadelphia Mummers Parade, 1917

arpeggia:

Otto Bettmann - Walking Violin in Philadelphia Mummers Parade, 1917

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DC is verdant and wonderful like always

crepuscule

A rare peek inside the workings of a shrub

Yesterday

Sometimes I use tall palm trees as a compass because they lean gently southward toward the sun.