Flooding, high tides and blasting winds worked together to wash this massive “piece” of driftwood, or more correctly driftlog, ashore at La Push beach on the northwest coast of Washington.
When a strong gale blew though the community in spring 2010, it toppled trees that then floated down rivers and washed up on the shore.
The entire length of the beach was strewn with driftwood of all sizes- this being the largest.
Just for some perspective, the girl in this photo is 1.82 metres (6 feet) tall.
38 SECONDS OF PURE INSPIRATION BY AN AMERICAN HERO.
I WAS SO INSPIRED WATCHING THIS, I TRANSCRIBED IT!
“I want history to remember me, not that I was the first black woman to be elected to the Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who DARED TO BE HERSELF.
I want to be remembered as a CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN AMERICA.”
– Shirley Chisholm, CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN AMERICA
the founder of Ink Dwellstudio (whose mission is “to inspire people to love and protect the Earth one work of art at a time”), and a team of seven helpers,
has just completed painting a 3,000-square-foot mural on the wall of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center in Ithaca, New York, that depicts the evolution of birds. The mural features winged representatives from each of the world’s 243 families of modern birds, painted to scale on a massive world map on the 70-foot by 40-foot wall.
This Wall of Birds(whose official title is “From So Simple a Beginning: Celebrating the Evolution and Diversity of Birds”) is a commission to mark the 100-year anniversary of the Cornell Lab, one of the world’s leading ornithological institutes founded in 1915, where Kim worked as an intern in its scientific illustration program in 2011.
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