JackTHorn's Drifting Life

harm-none:

Beard magic.

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transquadricpalesexual:

Game of responsible decisions.

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atlasobscura:

Fingal’s Cave - Staffa, Scotland

Queen Victoria, Matthew Barney, Jules Verne, and Pink Floyd are not names you usually hear in the same sentence, but then the place that they all share is itself quite uncommon. Known as Fingal’s Cave, it bears a history and geology unlike any other cave in the world.

Seventy-two feet tall, two-hundred-seventy feet deep, what makes this sea cave so visually astoundingly is the hexagonal columns of basalt, neat six-sided pillars that make up its interior walls.

A well-known wonder of the ancient Irish and Scottish celtic people, it was the source of legends. Known to the celts as Uamh-Binn or “The Cave of Melody,” one Irish legend in particular explained the existence of the cave as well as that of the similar Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. As both are made of the same neat basalt columns, the legend holds that they were the end pieces of a bridge built by the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (a.k.a. Finn McCool) to Scotland where he was to fight Benandonner, his gigantic Scottish rival.

Best yet: The legend, which connects the two structures, is in effect geologically correct. Both the Giant’s Causeway and Fingal’s Cave were indeed created by the same ancient lava flow, which may have at one time formed a “bridge” between the two sites!

But what do Queen Victoria, Pink Floyd, etc. have to do with Fingal’s Cave? Keep reading… you know you want to find out!

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nera-morte:

No 

NO

NO

The thing I really noticed that Tolkien stole from J.K. Rowling’s books was the Trolls.

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Beltane in Colorado Springs, May 1 2013

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.”

- - Robert Frost

dionysian-light:

fallingfortheendless

My favorite three stones — their deep hues bring a strange resonance to me, and thrill me in a small, simple, fundamental way.  My favorite three colors.

beckw1n:

If you haven’t read Sandman and Lucifer…

You should.

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comicparanoia:

The Books of Magic #03

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kinkithandkind:

wevegotspoons:

“In an enchanting woodland area of Shikoku, known to locals as the “glowing forest,” mushrooms and fallen leaves emit a magical light for just a short period of time each year.”

(via NHK WORLD TV | Hometown Stories)

How cool is this??