theoddmentemporium:

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.

In 1848 some workmen, after moving a block of stone in the woods, found a small cavity in the rocks. In this cavity, hidden away, were three earthenware jars containing over 3,000 Roman coins. No-one knows why the coins were hidden away in the cliff face nor by whom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, a frequent visitor to the Forest of Dean, may have visited Puzzlewood, and many believe Puzzlewood was the inspiration for the fabled forests of Middle-earth, such as the Old Forest, Mirkwood, Fangorn or Lothlórien contained within The Lord of the Rings. J.K Rowling is also said to have visited Puzzlewood, and it may have been this that influenced her idea of The Forbidden Forest in the Harry Potter books.

wallytumblz:

~ivany86

architizer:

Motion Patterns in Nature

(Photos from Bernhard Edmaier)

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dreamfulartist:

theartofanimation:

Xiao Huang

Words can’t describe how much I love these.

inkwings:

Joey Chou

sixohthree:

(via Ada Hamza - BOOOOOOOM!)

inkwings:

Patrick Awa

lnop:

Marc Giai-Miniet’s miniature boxes are metaphors of the human life with inner mecanisms, materials to be transported or evacuated. Here, library and books represent Humanity and therefore Knowledge that anyone owns and passes on.

mydarkenedeyes:

Jeannie Lynn Paske

arpeggia:

Autumn on the Wissahickon with Tree

by Valerie Hegarty