The Nearness of You

soggy and still wrapped in my towels I cant get enough of this song. The essence of her voice and every note she hits strikes something deep within my bones. I cant help but close my eyes and feel every ounce of care for trivial nonsense leave my body.



- Katherine

50 things you may or may not know

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

Finding Everett Ruess

"For 75 years the disappearance of Everett Ruess has posed one of the greatest mysteries in the annals of adventure. Now, a skeleton in the desert, a navajo tale of murder, and a battery of genetic and forensic analyses may finally put the legend to rest."

case solved...read more at http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/everett-ruess/david-roberts-text

-Katherine

purple

-Katherine

Seedy

—Photograph by Sandor H. Szabo/MTI/AP

Csengele, Hungary, April 21, 2009--While planting seedlings, workers on a farm 140 kilometers (85 miles) south of Budapest lay down plastic sheeting in this aerial view.

the perfect guy

Alone in the wilderness

robin egg blue

I caused a lot of trouble in my years. 

The color of the wall in this video inspires me as well a the lyrics and the banjo and the lyrics

Hello dear, everything is fine. its a nice day maybe low 70s. I may or may not go grocery shopping. I need to clean up the rust off the bikes and maybe do some wash. sighhhhh kdkajhfkj.

-Katherine

get right out of town...

April 14, 2009--Lightning, which often accompanies large eruptions, illuminates a giant ash cloud from Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, southwest of Anchorage, in a March 28 picture by an amateur astronomer. (See daytime pictures of the Redoubt Volcano eruption.)

To "see" the lightning inside volcanic plumes, scientists began setting up four lightning mapping arrays, which look like large antennas, near Redoubt Volcano in January. Often used to predict thunderstorms, such arrays had never before been deployed before an eruption.

"We don't always get lightning [when a volcano erupts]," said Steve McNutt, research professor of volcano seismology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was involved in the project. "And that's one of the things we're trying to figure out."
—Photograph courtesy Bretwood Higman

This picture fascinates me... and also for some reason reminds me of my deep love for dark and crazy things. Like ghosts and horror movies. Ill try and come up with a good Horror top ten list after some good thought for next time. enjoy.

-Katherine

shredding, building, beards

a. I wish I were a 11 year old boy who skated so I could go to this camp.
b. Doing a back flip off a moving skateboard into a lake seems like a really fun/good idea
c. Its refreshing to see genuine, laid back, good people doing awesome creative and helpful things. especially if they have beards.

-Katherine

Fresh Milk

Im creating this blog to follow life, fashion, and the inspirations I come across on a daily basis. Through reading this I hope you discover beautiful things (and people), learn new things, and think about life on a bigger scale.

So here we go...

Not a huge fan of worms myself. I love to fish but since i don't have a boyfriend anymore to worm my hooks i use bread (by the way the bread thing is actually pretty good bait especially if you dip it in a little beer) OK back to worms... wow. these guys are amazing. Marine fireworms. definitely a fitting name. The colors and everything are stunning.. transparent, orange, yellow, red and they are so well designed.




National Geographic says "Among the many intriguing aspects of the marine fireworm is the staying power of the glow it creates, thought to be created by a specific light-producing protein, or "photoprotein." As part of the Scripps study of the worms, it was found by researchers Dimitri Deheyn and Michael Latz that the goo glows in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit).

The fluorescent photoprotein in the worm's goo may have commercial applications. "If we understand how it's possible to keep light so stable for such a long time, [the process could be used] in biomedical, bioengineering, or other fields," Deheyn said in a statement."

—Photograph by Dimitri Deheyn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

I only have one thing to say. NG.... please hire me.... ill work for free.

-Katherine