Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds -- On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea By Tim Flannery.
A complex mosaic of a novel set in the Philippines Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds -- On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea By Tim Flannery.
We bounce through the Omo Valley over long distances and choppy roads, finally turning off just past a bright pink elephant-leg tree and find a village, of sticks and cows and beautiful people, in body paint and lip plates and metal bracelets and patterned scarring.
Trained as a classical artist at the Voronezh Arts School and later as a filmmaker at a Moscow institute, Mr. Petrov long ago forsook brushes for his own hands: with a few deft movements of his fingers, thumbs or even the heel of his palm, he creates faces, hands, legs, trees, sky and the shifting moods of a Russian lake during the spring thaw or a Caribbean sea at sunset.
The greatest documentary photographers in the world cut off heads, arms, legs, trees and buildings, etc. Subjects were out of focus, or blurred with motion because of too slow shutter speeds.
Don't ask how I know this, but there's people with Milroy disease, where their lymph nodes in their legs never develop and they end up with feet the size of suitcases on legs like tree trunks.
The closest I could approximate was a kind of bound-leg yogic tree pose.
Even more, she explained, "I think of my legs as tree trunks, really rooted to the floor".
Half of youngsters aged nine to 11 were unable to identify a daddy-long-legs, oak tree, blue tit or bluebell, in the poll by BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Roddick was a big kid, with legs like tree trunks, a cocky stride, and a sporting tendency to applaud his opponent's winners by tapping his racquet strings with the heel of his hand.
And then, finally, you notice, to the left, the big punch line: the enormous paws and legs like tree trunks of a Great Dane or a dog of a related breed.
