Biking on Kiawah Island

laphamsquarterly:

The dog I refer to was a little white fox-terrier, Prin by name, who lived at the Lion Hotel. He began by displaying a fancy for playing with coins, not unusual amongst terriers, and he advanced to a discovery that he could exchange the coins for biscuits. He learned that for a halfpenny he could get two biscuits, and for a penny three; and, having become able to distinguish between the two coins, it was found impossible to cheat him. 

The Most Talented Dogs in England, today in Roundtable.

PS make like the dog owners in this piece—reblog and tell us about what your dogs can do! 

That’s a smart Westie.

One last picture from the mountains.

crookedindifference:

First Solar Eclipse Photograph

Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process, at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, a local daguerrotypist whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.

(via itsfullofstars)

awesomepeoplereading:

Nimoy reads.

beyondspock:

Learning lines.

theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

Cool, now my hobby has a name!

bookriot:

Set your dials to jaw-dropping for The Library of Parliament in Canada.

(via breathingbooks)

Interior of Books and Beans, the best bookstore in Little Switzerland, N.C.

themysteryofmrh:

Appealing to the bluegrass at the heart of every Super-Villain.

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(Source: kaplansplaylist, via polerstuff)

Blue Ridge #mountains #landscape #nature #sky #clouds #blueridge #nationalparks #nps #northcarolina #nc

You and me both, pal.

thehellofitall:

HAHAHA

Ted Chaough, in control

Linville Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway

Mountain morning