Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Beauty in the Mundane


As I did my walkabout this morning, I saw this pattern and found it absolutely beautiful: almost a Celtic knot in form.

It reminds me of the quote attributed to Confucius, "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what you're seeing here?

3 comments:

  1. I'm guessing a pond surface; pond algae, stirred by something moving along the top of the water that's making the channels, like a feeding fish or turtle?

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  2. looks like singled celled algae to me.

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  3. You guys are generally correct - the one minor addition being that this is the surface of our sewage lagoon. (Not a place I generally notice a whole lot of beauty going on!) I'm not sure what was actually making the patterns in the algae - more likely turtle than fish, I'd guess.

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