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Jewel is 19 and at SMU :) |
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) chicks at nest on building, London. Picture: Bertie Gregory/2020VISION / Rex Features
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How to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden
Bright colors, not flowery smells, are what entice the tiny birds, and butterflies also like many of the same plants.
So I’m super nervous-excited about going to Taos.
I feel like I should feel ridiculously epic because I was “paid” over six thousand dollars to go take botany classes and research trees. I love trees
My cactus sprouted offspring, so I made baby terrariums!
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Memorial Day picnic.
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Man-made environmental catastrophes come in varying degrees of tragic, but none is as awful as when human action renders once-pristine land uninhabitable.
10 places ruined by man-made catastrophes
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| Emilie: | I would read classic literature and every time I came across a word I didn't know, I would look it up and write the definition in the margin. That drastically improved my vocabulary. |
| Wanda: | Oh. The SAT is in less than a week though, that won't help me now. |
| Emilie: | But it's just a good idea for life. |
| Wanda: | Yea, I guess so. |
| Emilie: | I mean, it will take up a lot of time but you'll learn so many new words. There's really no cost. Except, y'know, your social life. You might lose friends... a boyfriend... Really, there's no cost. |
Use whatever talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~Henry Van Dyke (Taken with instagram)
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12 Things Happy People Do Differently
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M-O family portraits from Andrew Stanton.
This is WAY too wonderful not to post here.
From the article:
“While the film was in production, Stanton’s team had a real life statue of the character and one day, on a whim, took him to Sears to get a bunch of family portraits taken. That was years ago and, since then, the photos have remained safely on Andrew Stanton’s iPhone. Nowhere else.”
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U.S. creates first ‘National Blueway’
Unlike the current patchwork of protections for rivers, a National Blueway will cover an entire river ‘from...
Cheesecake filled strawberries.
12 Things Happy People Do Differently
there are a big handful of people i will miss here. and i’ll miss being able to travel around europe if i feel like it, or going to paris for the...
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around...
Well, that’s one way to recycle…