boy, that's not your look

Pocket map of London, c. 1890

provoloneclone:

everyone, your blogs suck

http://patmores.tumblr.com/ is the best thing to exist ever

everyone else go home

Flight attendants stand and talk beneath airline advertising posters, March 1951.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

Design by Joey Bates

lauren:

Most amazing polar bear encounter a couple days ago.

I’m someone who’s done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Second Helpings
by John Brehm

I wear my heart on my sleeve,
or rather both sleeves, since
it’s usually broken.
Sometimes when I join my hands
to pray, the jagged edges
briefly touch,
like a plate that fell and cracked
apart from being asked
to hold too much.

Margaret Neilson Armstrong

White Clematis

1911

We’ll dance. We’ll get our dance on!

Crossing the Outback by Train | For more than a hundred years, a top-to-bottom exploration eluded European settlers—until these trails were blazed by John McDouall Stuart and Robert O’Hara Burke. Today’s Ghan train follows Stuart’s lead.

by Kim Wolhuter

Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair in 1938.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

ashmackenzie:

I can finally post my piece for Ghostbook! I was thinking about ghosts made out of thread, drifting around and unravelling as they haunt.