sometimes i forget most people don’t know that birdhouse shapes aren’t just for shits and giggles and that birds actively prefer and even need specific shapes to nest in
So which ones need the Frank Lloyd Wright ass houses?
the ones that make 240,000$ a year by making other birds work in their warehouse for 5 sunflower seeds a day
Thinking to myself “hmm, I know it’s twenty below* with a meter* of snow on the ground, but even so, my grill shouldn’t be struggling to go above 315* ā I should probably clean the valves”, and it occurs to me that my winter cooking habits might possibly be atypical.
* American viewers read “five below”, “yard” and “600”, respectively.
It’s actually funny how humans decided “fuck living in caves with all these creepy crawlies”, got out of caves, built houses that have all the nice parts of a cave without any of the yucky parts, and then all the little bugs and spiders and other creepy crawly creatures that used to also live in caves thought “sweet, new and improved caves” and moved right back in with us.
Painting of the Maharaja of Indore by Bernard Boutet De Monvel (1929)
His name was Yashwant Rao Holkar II! He was the Maharaja of Indore from 1926 to 1948 and commissioned Bernard Boutet De Monvel to paint both him and his wife Sanyogita Bai Holkar, the Maharani of Indore.
There was also a second set of paintings where both wear traditional clothes also painted by Monvel in 1934!
can i also share these two specific picture of the two of them that iām obsessed with
amhrancas 