A recent thought which amuses me:

[capri0mni]

As I was snacking on an apple, the other day (Yesterday? The day before?), I realized that the tiny, dried, green leaves at the apple's blossom end were the dried remains of the calyx, which, when the apple was still a flower, had hugged and protected the ovules.

So: does that mean we could say that the apple's blossom end is its belly button?

Why yes, I am easily amused. Why are you looking at me funny?

Comments

[spiralsheep]

:-D

[capri0mni]

\o/

[smw]

Ahaha, that is glorious and adorable.

[capri0mni]

I tend to think that all of biological existence is glorious and adorable, but for the pressures of cultural bigotries that we layer on top of it that make me sad.

But when I squint and focus on the life that's there behind the cultural lens, I often have to giggle...

Did you know that there is a species of bacteria (or is it a fungus?) that lives only on the little hollow of skin on the inside of our elbows, and no where else on Earth?

*giggles*

[smw]

I did not know! Now the crooks of my elbows are a million times more awesome and joyous.

[capri0mni]

*nods*

Sometimes, keeping factoids like this in my head is the only thing that gets me through the day.

We are each of us a cosmos.

[rob_t_firefly]

And here I thought only oranges had navels. XD

[capri0mni]

Well, the navel of an orange is the blossom end of the fruit...