a directory of aesthetic pleasures.Tumblr (3.0; @woolnwoods)http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aHZjAfu_OPo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://in-north-carolina.tumblr.com/post/14621488881/flatfootin-in-sugar-grove">in-north-carolina</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Flatfootin’ in Sugar Grove</p> </blockquote>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14622685578http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14622685578Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:33:01 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw7a073NBF1qavdvko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://in-north-carolina.tumblr.com/post/14621527030/praises-due-to-the-most-fly-hillsborough-rd">in-north-carolina</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Praises due to the most fly Hillsborough Rd Bojangles in Durham for having the most hospitable lady there refilling sweet teas and coffees, and going so far as to bring more ice for tea.</p> </blockquote>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14622572669http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14622572669Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:30:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwka8xz2Zj1qavdvko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14603384295http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14603384295Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:19:19 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwig3glptK1qcim0wo1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwig3glptK1qcim0wo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwig3glptK1qcim0wo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwig3glptK1qcim0wo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thedisasterlife.tumblr.com/post/14513208224/i-love-winter-and-i-love-you-which-means-that-its">thedisasterlife</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I love winter and I love you which means that it’s time for a contest!!!!!!!(!!!!!!!)</p> <p>Here are the rules:</p> <p>1.Re-blog this entry as many times as you wish; each re-blog will heighten your chances of winning</p> <p>2.Do not remove any of the text or images (I will be checking)</p> <p>3. You do not have to be following me but that would be nice if you did</p> <p>Follow the rules and you will win an 8x10 print of “Cat Dreams”, a 5x7 print of “Death Kitty Tarot Card”, an assortment of hi-gloss stickers and a secret surprise original drawing. You have until January 1st at 12PM EST.</p> <p>in the meantime, head over to my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thedisasterlife">etsy</a> shop to take a look at some of the prizes and more</p> </blockquote>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14563139266http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14563139266Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:35:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltal3o0L461qadbe9o1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14563061494http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14563061494Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:32:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvz1c8omd51qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>home sweet home</p>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14001371811http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/14001371811Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:48:08 -0500<iframe src="http://video.patagonia.com/video/Common-Threads-Initiative-2/player?layout=compact&read_more=1" width="400" height="294" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13472943698http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13472943698Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:34:31 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcu4cwGkB1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441585046http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441585046Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:05:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcu3vx3Kf1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441573733http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441573733Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:04:43 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcu3ik5uF1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441565041http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441565041Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:04:29 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcu1u1ruf1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441526758http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441526758Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:03:30 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvctwqMlMq1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441406814http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441406814Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:26 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvctvuNZ4y1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441385648http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441385648Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:59:53 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvctur7dbW1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441360820http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13441360820Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:59:15 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv5mp3049d1qea6wro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13347700024http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13347700024Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:26:50 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv95vwpGYp1r1w17go1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv95vwpGYp1r1w17go2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv95vwpGYp1r1w17go3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv95vwpGYp1r1w17go4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cyclesdujour.tumblr.com/post/13335445769/before-i-buckled-down-for-a-nearly-3-hour-long">cyclesdujour</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Before I buckled down for a nearly 3 hour long Thanksgiving fest, I took a easy ride into my back yard.  I am fortunate enough to live next door to one of Olmsted’s masterpiece parks, the Arnold Arboretum!  Established in 1872, The Arnold Arbo. is America’s first public arboretum.  With nearly 15,000 trees, shrubs and vines on 265 acres, the Arbo. is one of the largest collections of plant life in the world!  This makes for one sweet fall day ride. </p> <p>I chose to take out one of my works in progress.  A 1982 Bridgestone Antares LDT.  Fully stock from the factory, This bike was made for country-side touring. </p> </blockquote>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13335583560http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13335583560Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:32:30 -0500<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Wm2QYhQItaU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13334004735http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13334004735Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:53:14 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luvxfnD38P1qzfjmqo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luvxfnD38P1qzfjmqo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13059731139http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13059731139Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:55:03 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxe5rFJXE1qzprlbo1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxe5rFJXE1qzprlbo3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxe5rFJXE1qzprlbo4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxe5rFJXE1qzprlbo2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kateoplis.tumblr.com/post/13028343858/send-in-the-clouds-this-is-mashpi-rainforest">kateoplis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/send-in-the-clouds/?ref=style"><strong>Send in the Clouds</strong></a></p> <blockquote> <p>This is <a href="http://www.mashpilodge.com/">Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve</a>, a recently formed private concession on the western slopes of the Andes, a last piece of Ecuadorean cloud forest at the southern end of what ecologists call the Chocó-Darién biogeographic region. In May, the Municipality of Quito declared 45,500 acres of this forest a “natural protected area”; that reserve envelops the heart of Mashpi, 2,891 acres that belong to Roque Sevilla.</p> <p>The Chocó was once an unbroken belt of forest that stretched all the way from eastern Panama through Colombia and Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Over the last century, deforestation has reduced it to diminishing islands; a 2001 report by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund found that only 2 percent of the original lowland forest of the Ecuadorean Chocó remains.</p> <p>But what islands they still are: places of gorges and waterfalls and pumas and tarantulas whose legs glow purple when they get mad. Here remain some of the least-studied places in the world, with thousands of creatures that exist absolutely nowhere else. There are cecropia trees that swarm with ants if you rap their hollow trunks; rare cuckoos that throw their voices; strangler figs that latch onto another tree midtrunk, drop aerial roots down to the ground and slowly choke their host tree to death. […]</p> <p><span>Fourteen years ago, Roque Sevilla bought these hills from a logging company, and now, in a clearing high on a ridge, he’s building a hotel. Not just any hotel, either: this will be a supremely modern structure of steel and glass, with trellises for vertical gardens, an impressive staircase made of oxidized steel and devastating views.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/send-in-the-clouds/?ref=style">Read on</a></strong>.</p> </blockquote>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13059649415http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/13059649415Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:51:42 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luw50ptC8k1qb9ntno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>not related…</p>http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/12998835013http://woolnwoods.tumblr.com/post/12998835013Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:41:13 -0500