red autumn

thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, most likely due to the fact that it's in fall and you consume copious amounts of food.

or maybe it's that my family finally takes the time to relax and do nothing, not at each others' throats or stressing every tidbit.

or maybe it's just the colors.

(c: wolvesandbucks, thesartorialist)

language

“It’s hard to use a word like preserve with a language,” said Robert Holman, who teaches at Columbia and New York Universities ... “It’s not like putting jelly in a jar. A language is used. Language is consciousness. Everybody wants to speak English, but those lullabies that allow you to go to sleep at night and dream — that’s what we’re talking about.”

(c: ealtosaar, nyt)

intricate

selby, you never fail to impress me.
today: used my recent knowledge of how to make a rue, an infinite amount of emails, studying for microbiology, and hopefully celebrating a coworker later.
currently: a plum sweatshirt, music by phantogram, and sunshine streaming through my open door on the second floor.



(c: selby)

fuyu kaki

my two next-door-neighbors have persimmon trees in their front yards.

they noticed i took some persimmons, and left a note kindly asking me not to.

i have one ripening on the kitchen table now, and i can't wait to eat it...

(c: electric-breeze, ryoryozo)

Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis thaliana is a "model organism" in the field of botany. a member of the Brassicaceae, the plant grows worldwide and is becoming increasingly important in plant genomics.
white-on-white, sweater-on-sweater. continuing my obsession with sweater-shorts...

(c: tbyawangf11)

somnambulation

still hot enough to post these.

for me: keelboat sailing, syntax trees, species-being, ssu rRNA, and a new pair of sunglasses.

dreamy whites and pales. here's a song to reflect that:

(c: petracollins)

smitten

(c: linascheynius, shetha, smitten)

last unremitting, grasping-at-straws days of "summer." in october. in santa cruz.

i'm making nori, rice, and japanese sweet potatoes for dinner tonight.

then off to classical sociological theory.

UNTTLD

cant. stop. looking at that knitted dress.
and the boots.
and that sweatershirt.
it's actually misty and damp outside for the first tangible time.
too bad i have sailing today.

(c: elle canada)

sorrenta

click on the image above. it's much better when it's bigger.

(c: sorrenta)

kikomizuhara

she's beautiful.
today: coconut coffee, a bike ride up the coast, finally unpacking, beer, and bowling.

(c: lina scheynius)