Post a link to something beautiful. No arguing, no cheesecake, & no beefcake, please.

[kayaker]

@Kimballkid

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Postmodern Jukebox.

I think it’s awesome anyway.

Me too.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

I’m wrapping up a unit on states of matter with my third graders, and today at the end of a lesson I showed them one of my favorite clips: a riff on Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the question, “What’s the most astounding fact you know?” It’s lovely and mindblowing.

[gigi]

10,000 people singing the Ode to Joy:

- YouTube

[gigi]

http://www.english.txstate.edu/skerpan_wheeler/ESkerpan_2310/Authors/cummings.html

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the… | Poetry Foundation

“I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am… immortal diamond.” is on Mom’s (well, it will be for three of us eventually) tombstone.

[Spoke]

Waterfall at the bottom of Cloudland Canyon, Lookout Mountain.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

You just had to put that word in my head, didn’t you? You just HAD to!

(Eye of the beholder?)

All kidding aside, making something (especially something difficult) from scratch has a certain beauty to it.

[chiroptera]

The incomparable Maddy Prior singing Gaudete.

[Octarine]

“Tulips” by Sylvia Plath. It’s incredibly sad, but a peaceful, beautiful kind of sadness. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. I still remember how I felt the first time I read it - just overwhelmed by its . . . perfection.

“Who Knows If The Moon’s” by ee cummings.

“Young Woman Drawing.” Thought to be a self-portrait by the painter.

Joan Baez: “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You.”

Lastly, this picture was making the rounds a while back: in Egypt, Christians protect praying Muslims.

[Stringbean]

Beethoven’s 6th performed by the best orchestra of all-time.

Sit on your porch one Sunday afternoon and hear man touch nature’s hand.

[terentii]

http://iwantachange.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/starship-enterprise.jpg

http://cyly.eu/img/2014/02/mustang-p51wallpaper.jpg

George Frideric Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

[terentii]

Handel: The Music for the Royal Fireworks (Complete) Sir Neville Marriner

[Captain_Amazing]

I’m Going to Go Back There Someday
When the River Meets the Sea
Amazing Grace-Sufjan Stevens
Ogden Nash: A Lady Who Thinks She is Thirty

[terentii]

http://www.carsofdreams.com/previous-cod-site/100-batmobile/hi-res.jpg

http://harbingerdesignandmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jamesbond_astonmartin_00.jpg

[Helena330]

I just heard “Atlantis” by Donovan for the first time yesterday. I can’t believe I never have. This video is lovely, as well.

Donovan / Atlantis

[Chronos]

Do we have any mathematical beauty here, yet?

Vi Hart on fractals

[romansperson]

Some of your YouTube vids may be in here.

Here’s a Google Data Center in Oregon.

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

Sunset from the back yard of my house.

[Morgyn]

BOOM-de-yada
Rainbow Room, Madrid
Laburnum archway, Wales
Anglo-Saxon shoulder clasp, Sutton Hoo ship burial

[KRC]

Sunset between Lexington and Pisgah KY.

https://picasaweb.google.com/103353440908712928462/AthensOfTheWestLexingtonKY#6077183083424301906

[Renee]

@stillownedbysetters

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=0736D2F1150039E0967E82AAC4112D818F8AAA0C&selectedIndex=11

This is my first go at posting a link. Hope it works.

I grew up along Lake Michigan and was always enchanted by the way waves would freeze in action. Sometimes very dramatic like the pictures show, other times smaller, but still recognizable as waves. This was my “Frozen”, long before Elsa and the Disney movie came along.

That is SO cool! I’ve never seen it, thanks!
**Biggirl, **love the staircase.

Pod of Beluga whales.

[MsKaren]

@Chronos

Oh, and when image links don’t work the first time, one trick to try is to stay on the window that’s supposed to have the image, click in the address bar, and then hit enter to load it again (this trick works for that specific image, as well). The website is only showing the image when the referrer for the link is from somewhere on the same site: They want you to be able to see the image on their pages, but they don’t want it visible to people who aren’t seeing their page. Re-entering the address bar makes the referrer that same page, so it works.

Thanks for this. That did work.