So it’s just show shih tzus that have that long pony tail hair tied up in a hair bow?

That dog is the exact copy of my favorite dog ever, but ours was a rescue mutt. You think that’s a shih tzu?? If so, I want one.

The coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) make me think of Rivendell. The giant sequoia, like in this photo (sequoia giganteum) are like the Ents.

There's another sequoia with a really fascinating story. We have them in San Francisco in the botanical garden. Dawn redwoods, if you are interested in this very beautiful deciduous "extinct" redwood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

Lucky you!!

OK I'm gonna tell you my story. I was born and raised in California and had visited both the coastal redwoods and Yosemite many times but somehow had never seen these trees. And we had a friend visiting from Thailand who wanted to go to Yosemite, so we took him to the Tuolumne Grove, where you park and then walk a bit down into the forest. And I said to my friend "I'm not sure how we will know which ones are the Sequoiahs. . ." And then when we saw the first one I laughed so hard I peed my pants.

Calling them trees doesn't really describe what's going on with them.

A rare example of an r/earthporn photo that needs a human being in it in order for the photo to make any sense. You can't understand how huge these trees are unless you can compare them to something like a person or a bicycle in the photo.

It's OK. You wouldn't be able to pronounce the native name for it anyway.

And of course, not everything is Devil. The Mornings were very busy renaming things that referenced the Book of Mormon.

Although, now that I think about it, Devil's Postpile is is hard to wrap your head around without referencing the Devil.

And crystals!

Yes I absolutely agree. Sometimes women without epidurals even sleep right through a “pushing” contraction.

Sounds like you’ve got this thing figured out. I had a patient once who said “I think I’ve found my sport!”.

Oh well yes I’ve done “some” stitching and yes it is absolutely an art. In fact, deciding whether to put any stitches at all into shallow tears is an art. Midwives tend not to sew shallow tears (1st degree) as long as they aren’t bleeding, because the stitches are often much more uncomfortable than unsutured “skid marks“. Not to say that vulval tears are particularly pleasant no matter what!

This doesn’t really work well for deeper tears, where the muscle or small sphincter are torn. That’s really the point of OP’s question.

My observation, from delivering a couple of thousand babies, is that first time teenagers almost never have deep tears, and first time 35 year olds almost always have tears, and so probably there were fewer tears hundreds of years ago.

The classic (but I’ve never seen it in 25 years of L&D work) “husband stitch” was put deep into the underlying muscle. A 1st degree tear is so shallow that it doesn’t effect the muscle.

Someone could tie a first degree tear stitch too tight, for sure, in an attempt to make the woman’s vulva “look right”, whatever that means.

r/botw

We’re up higher (Ouray and Telluride) and there’s snow on the mountains and the aspens are peaking right now).