Welcome to Twosday Teatime, I'm filling in for this week, since I had a moment of time, and, well ... tea!
Kettle's on, this is an open thread, but let's throw something out there as a conversation starter...
In this increasingly photoshopped world, I keep hearing and seeing the point that people believe beauty is symmetry, everything must be smooth, unblemished and symmetrical. Instead, let's talk about the beauty of the asymmetrical, the unpolished, the blemished and kinda lopsided.
Let's start things off with one of the goofier-looking beautiful flowers out there, the orchid, here we have a vanilla blossom from Madagascar (it even has a bug on it):
More after the flip...
I'm filling in for, well, I'm not sure who yet. Chunyang, beloved purveyor of Tuesday tea for many weeks past, realized that the world outside the Internet required some extra attention, and these diaries were making that more difficult. I can't keep doing Tuesday (just happened to have extra time, this week only, while changing jobs), so if you can take over teatime on Tuesdays, let us know during the comments.
In the meantime, here's one of my favorite lopsided beasties, the fiddler crab, sometimes the color on them is spectacular:
People are beautiful too, even if they're not like the folks they put on the magazine covers (hell, the cover models for the magazines aren't like the pictures on the magazine covers anymore). The beauty is always there, but finding and expressing a little joy can help share that beauty with others:
And, of course, as we look up at the sky, we can realize that it doesn't care what some overpaid publisher on Madison Avenue thinks beauty is:
I'm steeping the tea, and there's coffee, cookies and other snacks on the table there. We've got an open thread, let us know how your day is, where you're finding beauty in the messy world we find around us.