Lila, Yours

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f-featherbrain:

Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration
13.1903-1904

The yellow and gold stripes nearest the Gulf of Mexico coast represent rocks of Cenozoic age, younger than 65 million years. The southernmost green stripe labeled uK4 marks the Selma Group. The rocks between it and the dark green stripe of the Tuscaloosa Group, labeled uK1, all date from Late Cretaceous time, starting at about 95 million years ago.
The more resistant layers in this sequence crop out as long low ridges, steep on the north and gentle on the south, called cuestas. This part of Alabama formed in the shallow waters that have covered most of the central continent throughout geologic history.
The Tuscaloosa Group gives way to the compressed, folded rocks of the southernmost Appalachian Mountains to the northeast and the flat-lying limestones of the interior basins to the north. These different geologic elements give rise to a great variety of landscapes and plant communities, in what outsiders might consider a flat and uninteresting region.

f-featherbrain:

sisterwolf:

Alphonse Osbert

(1857-1939)

lualualua:

tree of life

speciesbarocus:

Virgil Solis - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

blastedheath:

Italian baroque style pietra dura panel

f-featherbrain:

Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration
2.1898

windypoplarsroom:

A. Wyeth
“Witching Hour”