Mar 8th / 424 notes †<i>Queen</i> by <a href=”http://feanne.com/”>Feanne</a> (<a href=”http://drawtoday.tumblr.com/”>tumblr</a>/<a href=”http://facebook.com/artistfeanne”>facebook</a>/<a href=”http://twitter.com/feannekitty”>twitter</a>)
Watercolor, 27 X 38 CM
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<b><i>I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along.
I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them…</i>
― Annie Dillard</b>
Mar 8th / 309 notes †Horses, Mongolian Steppe photograph by Mark Leong for National Geographic
An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska. Mongolian culture—physical, mobile, self-reliant, and free—developed out here on the steppe. “When people move to Ulaanbaatar, they bring that mentality with them,” says Baabar, a well-known publisher and historian.
(Mongolian express lust)
