TEM olfactory epithelium epithelial cells nose nasal cavity cilia

Smell receptor. Colored transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a section through the olfactory (smell) epithelium of the nose. At center (orange) is an olfactory receptor cell body. At its top two long, modified non-motile cilia project into the liquid lining of the nasal cavity. The cilia are thought to be the sites of interaction between odoriferous substances and the receptor cells. Surrounding the receptor cell are the supporting cells with surface microvilli (finger-like). Within the cells, mitochondria (purple) & endoplasmic reticulum (flattened sacs) are seen. Magnification: x2,130 at 6x7cm size. Magnification: x7,300 at 10x8 inch size.

Blind Pilot - Three Rounds and a Sound

With no P.A. - last night from the Madison show. Magic.

Peleş Castle, Sinaia

Peleş Castle, Sinaia, a photo by bob9billion on Flickr.

Selective viewpoint

Selective viewpoint, a photo by shiraz anwar1 on Flickr.

The large forest gecko (Gekko smithii) is a lizard from the forests of South-East Asia. In bright light, the blue-green iris of the gecko’s eye constricts to form a slit-shaped pupil featuring four tiny pinholes.

from Electric Orchids

Proof

Notabatman

“Sit down, my dear,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.”

“You must be here very seldom, sir,” said I.

“Oh, you don’t know me!” he returned. “When I am deceived or disappointed in—the wind, and it’s easterly, I take refuge here. The growlery is the best-used room in the house….”

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Aging women mourn while they go to market,
buy fish, figs, tomatoes, enough “today” to
feed the wolf asleep under the table
who wakes from what dream?
What but loss comes round with the changing season?

Marilyn Hacker, “A Braid of Garlic”

Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson thought this picture of a rather sultry Alice disguised as a street urchin — hand-tinted by Carroll himself — the most beautiful photograph he had ever seen.

Tom Gauld

"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire." — Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921

Manuel Braun

Bamboo forest
moriyu

Broken Statuette
Cold Spring, New York, 1982
From Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage, Photographs 1956-2000

US Army Flight Medic Brandon Lowther (left) holds the hand of a fatally wounded US army soldier as he is airlifted by the Medevac helicopter of 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder, on August 24, 2011, to Kandahar Hospital Role 3. Two US soldiers were heavily injured by gun shots and brought to the hospital. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Ictk9/www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/afghanistan-august-2011/100139/

Leo Tolstoy Barefoot, 1901
Il’ya Repin (Russian, b. Ukraine, 1844-1930)