Mount Fitz Roy
Patagonia, Argentina
#nature #geology #wonders #mountain #summit #mastadon

Ocean Spray #art #mastoart #watercolor #seascape

@f @KathyReid the wife here. He is most assuredly not normal. :)

@DaNanner to be fair, do you want to do dishes any day?

I don't. I would prefer to never have to do any dishes, or other cleaning for that matter, ever again.

When I was young I loved reading accounts of travel in far off, oft forgotten places. Things like Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels with a Donkey”.

I loved learning about now gone places, the feel of the dust on the road, the texture of the food they ate, or just how a tuft of grass felt between your fingers. Anything that gave me a feel for a place that I’d never been to …

Later, when I was still young, I read “Destiny’s Road” by Larry Niven, which to me personally is one of the greatest #ScienceFiction novels ever because of the imagery and the feelings it evoked. It was like reading one of those travel novels, but for an alien planet. Niven gave me details about the flora and fauna of the planet that still paints vivid pictures in my mind 25+ years later …

So why am I talking about this now?

Well, today I heard about hedge apples from @at and @Fawn and that took me down a rabbit hole of reading to discover more about hedge apples. For some reason, reading the Wikipedia entry about hedge apples reminded me of “Destiny’s Raod” and led me down a twisted lane of memory pathways 🙂

A long, long time ago, I read this book by Yakov Perelman called “Fun with Mathematics” (I think?) The USSR put out a lot of books back then (mostly Progress Publishers) and there were a lot of interesting science and maths books from them. This book (or possibly something similar, the details are hazy in my mind since this was 40 years or so ago) talked about a greatest tall tale competition.

One guy comes in and tells a tale of Baron Manchausen (or maybe it was the baron himself) about some feat where he does something which sounds patently impossible. Then another guy comes in an tells a rather prosaic sounding story about an ordinary day where some perfectly ordinary sounding things happen with regards to fruit on a bush, birds singing etc.

The judges say that what the Baron talked about (possibly a journey to the moon) was possible but what the other guy talked about was impossible because that particular fruit did not grow in that season and those birds were not found in that area etc. They were trying to make you realize that perfectly ordinary things could be impossible and that things that sounded impossible could actually be fact.

So why am I dragging that hazy memory out, kicking and screming?

Because reading about the hedge apple made me wonder if you could perhaps combine all of these things, perfectly normal bits of information from our ordinary world, into a science fiction tale of travel in a far off planet with just a few changes in detail. Create a story like “Destiny’s Road” where strange plants and wondrous creatures are revealed and they are all based on things that we find right here on earth but don’t really know about, or do know about, but don’t really think are that strange to others from another part of the world?

This has got the gears in my brain turning extra hard … 😛

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Road

#Writing #Stories #Memories #Books

Low clouds over Lake Lugano, Switzerland

It's here - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/early-morning-on-lake-lugano-deborah-league.html

#mastodon #mastoart #art
#artist #AYearForArt #photography #digitalart #landscape #wallart #homedecor #LoveArt #ArtMatters #artwork #fediart #mountains #meditation #calming #peaceful #landscapeart #digitalpainting #LakeLugano #Switzerland #LakeSide #travelgoals #travelart #clouds #lake

Based on multiple memories of watching the sunset on the Pacific from trips to North America's west coast. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm not a morning person so I love seeing the sunset in the ocean more than rise over it. So these are fond memories.

#MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Sunset #DigitalArt #Painting #Abstract #Colorful #MarkOnArt

Find it here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/sunset-dreams-on-the-pacific-mark-tisdale.html

#introduction Hi everybody. 🙂👋 My name is Anne and I'm from Finland. I created my account today so I'm now studying how to use Mastodon.

I work as a Specialist and I'm interested in Service Design and different cultures. I love cats, #cooking, nature, kayaking and reading/listening to books/nice music. I'm a gentle soul with a positive mindset. 🙂

#finland #cats #nature #kayaking #hiking #simpelife #PositiveAttitude #books #music #movies #singlewoman #travelling #humanity #cultures #people

#ArtOfUkraine
#AndriyOgurtsov Ukraine 🇺🇦
https://www.facebook.com/groups/261697434336505/permalink/1579699955869573/

This is how it is.

I just really like most of you if i have you listen to 2 hour monologues ;)

@m0nkeyh0use me, too. So much me.

Oh jeez... Me to a T.

The Milky Way over Snow Capped Himalayas
Credits: Tomas, Havel
#nature #space #astrophotography

The older I get, the more I regret all the people l've lost over the years.
Maybe being a trail guide wasn't such a great idea after all.

“Our abandonment of simple and effective variant-proof protection measures has left our older adults and marginalized communities isolated and at risk.”

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #BringBackMasks

@wr_record

Oh, it's me...

(saw this posted elsewhere on here but without alt-text, so shamelessly stealing it to add that)

Breaking hydroponic cherry tomato news.

Yesterday's #StableDiffusion prompt was: "Secret forest with hidden nooks" or "Fantasy forest with hidden nooks" ... I did some for each 🙂

These were done using multiple different models and different resolutions and so there's quite a range to the images.

I liked the results so much that I'll probably be doing a few more of this over the next few days ... Or, variations thereof.
Prompt: “secret forest with hid…
Prompt: “fantasy forest with hi…
Prompt: “fantasy forest with hi…
Prompt: “secret forest with hid…

@DaNanner LOL I feel your pain.

"Mysterious Surreal World 43 - made with @NightCafeStudio

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/Tgu7I79vTt8SK2roWY6C

#aiart #nightcafe #digitalart https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/Tgu7I79vTt8SK2roWY6C