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a purrfectly peaceful morningcontemplating stuff with my thinking sleeping partner.click or tap for the full text
berry deceptive 🫐trompe l'œil pâtisserie: mastering the art of camouflage just to end up on a wooden skewer no amount of chocolate or cream can beat real mangosteen or raspberries tho 🤤click or tap for the full text
trompe l'œil pâtisserie: mastering the art of camouflage just to end up on a wooden skewer
no amount of chocolate or cream can beat real mangosteen or raspberries tho 🤤
berry deceptive 🫐trompe l'œil pâtisserie: mastering the art of camouflage just to end up on a wooden skewer no amount of chocolate or cream can beat real mangosteen or raspberries tho 🤤click or tap for the full text
trompe l'œil pâtisserie: mastering the art of camouflage just to end up on a wooden skewer
no amount of chocolate or cream can beat real mangosteen or raspberries tho 🤤
a wing and a prayerwe're all just waiting for the storm to pass 🌧️click or tap for the full text
full moon photobombmissed a shot of the Hunter's Moon by a literal second before a cloud photobombed the scene—not everything is meant to be memorialised! 🏹🌕click or tap for the full text
missed a shot of the Hunter's Moon by a literal second before a cloud photobombed the scene—not everything is meant to be memorialised! 🏹🌕
invasion pending 🐌hard to imagine that this pretty bubblegum-pink egg cluster is so-coloured to warn off predators until it can manage to unleash yet more members of an invasive species. first time spotting golden apple snail (Pomacea…click or tap for the full text
hard to imagine that this pretty bubblegum-pink egg cluster is so-coloured to warn off predators until it can manage to unleash yet more members of an invasive species.
first time spotting golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) eggs in the wild! let's see if I'm lucky enough to catch any hatchlings live as they emerge sometime over the next two weeks 😍🐌
neighbourhood watchcame over from the lake to rack up some more frequent swimmer miles 🦎🏊♀️click or tap for the full text
came over from the lake to rack up some more frequent swimmer miles 🦎🏊♀️
emotional support editor 😻journal therapy 🐈click or tap for the full text
the moon invited itself to dinnermoon's doing that almost-full thing again 🌕 meeting dinner for a date on the beach to celebrate this week's goodness 🏖️click or tap for the full text
moon's doing that almost-full thing again 🌕 meeting dinner for a date on the beach to celebrate this week's goodness 🏖️
the moon invited itself to dinnermoon's doing that almost-full thing again 🌕 meeting dinner for a date on the beach to celebrate this week's goodness 🏖️click or tap for the full text
moon's doing that almost-full thing again 🌕 meeting dinner for a date on the beach to celebrate this week's goodness 🏖️
good morning? remains to be seenwhen you haven't quite figured out if it's a good morning or just morning… only coffee will tell ☕🙃click or tap for the full text
when you haven't quite figured out if it's a good morning or just morning… only coffee will tell ☕🙃
Dacrymyces spathularia striking a posealso known as the fan-shaped, this gorgeous lil' thing that grows on rotting wood can help keep drinks from spoiling 🤯 a master at decomposing wood (as a brown-rot fungus, it breaks down the cellulose and hemicellulose …click or tap for the full text
also known as the fan-shaped, this gorgeous lil' thing that grows on rotting wood can help keep drinks from spoiling 🤯
a master at decomposing wood (as a brown-rot fungus, it breaks down the cellulose and hemicellulose in rotting wood), Dacryopinax spathularia is also cultivated commercially to produce natural antimicrobial compounds (long-chain glycolipids) used as a preservative in beverages (eg Nagardo®).
its yellow-orange pigmentation comes from carotenoids that protects it against ultraviolet radiation, and it's actually an edible species! known in Chinese cuisine as sweet osmanthus ear, including Buddha's delight.
early lab + animal studies indicate interesting medicinal potential: acetylcholinesterase inhibition (the same enzyme targeted by the Alzheimer's medication donepezil), antioxidant activity, inhibition of enzymes associated with inflammation and starch digestion, and improvements in liver injury markers (ALT, AST, ALP, and bilirubin) in rats.
no demonstrated medicinal benefits in humans just yet, but what a biochemical resume for this beautiful little orange fungus! 🍄
flight of the bee-eater 🦜Merops orientalis (Asian green bee-eater) in our frangipani tree 🦜 found everywhere from coastal Iran to the Indian subcontinent and as far east as Viet Nam; in the Himalayas, they can be found as high up as 2,000m! fun …click or tap for the full text
Merops orientalis (Asian green bee-eater) in our frangipani tree 🦜
found everywhere from coastal Iran to the Indian subcontinent and as far east as Viet Nam; in the Himalayas, they can be found as high up as 2,000m!
fun fact: members of the bee-eater family (31 species' worth) nest in tunnelled burrows in sandy banks ⛱️
flight of the bee-eater 🦜Merops orientalis (Asian green bee-eater) in our frangipani tree 🦜 found everywhere from coastal Iran to the Indian subcontinent and as far east as Viet Nam; in the Himalayas, they can be found as high up as 2,000m! fun …click or tap for the full text
Merops orientalis (Asian green bee-eater) in our frangipani tree 🦜
found everywhere from coastal Iran to the Indian subcontinent and as far east as Viet Nam; in the Himalayas, they can be found as high up as 2,000m!
fun fact: members of the bee-eater family (31 species' worth) nest in tunnelled burrows in sandy banks ⛱️
mushroom matar 🤤ngl, been fantasising about this ever since (I didn't even mention it in) James' Food Questions challenge. so today I had me some north Indian curry with button mushrooms, green peas, onion-and-tomato masala, and…click or tap for the full text
ngl, been fantasising about this ever since (I didn't even mention it in) James' Food Questions challenge.
so today I had me some north Indian curry with button mushrooms, green peas, onion-and-tomato masala, and fenugreek 🇮🇳👌
wonder what my taste buds will compel me to revisit next on my foodie list… 🍴
