Ficus tree along the garden pathway at Thomas Edison's winter home in Fort Myers, Florida, year unknown. Edison, who first came to Fort Myers around 1885 for a series of “working vacations,” developed here one of the most extensive tropical botanical gardens in the United States.
Even a person
free of passion would be
moved to sadness:
autumn evening in a marsh
where snipe fly up."
― Saigyo (trans. Burton Watson)
[images: Koson Ohara/ Hasui Kawase]
Clay hedgehog-shaped vessel, attributed to the Neolithic Xiaoheyan culture, Nambaoligatu type, dated between 3000-2000 BC. Unearthed at the Nambaoligatu site in Zhalute Banner, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia.
@Simeria20@STFU1346@SydneyLWatson People like you can justify anything. Common sense and compassion mean nothing to little commonplace bureaucratic evil that only “follows orders”.