Heroes Not Zombies

I noticed this very, very well worn park bench the other day……fancy a seat?

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This fungus growing through the moss on the trunk of a tree caught my eye as I walked past. Incredible patterns. It almost looks like it should be on the bottom of the sea!

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Wow! Look at these! Aren’t they wonderful?
These are the seedheads of Anenome Japonica (thank’s Jane – I had no idea what they were!)
Amazingly, they’ve survived the weeks of snow and frost to get to this point in March. Resilience? Strength? Assertiveness? I think so…

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A zen garden in the garden. So, there’s this post in the garden, and somebody laid a stone on it a few years back, and now the moss has grown and…..well, just look….isn’t it beautiful?

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The patterns on this bark look amazing. Not just the underlying pattern of the tree, but the strange markings on the bark itself. I don’t know what made this odd saw-tooth pattern, and I’d be tempted to say it wasn’t made naturally, but, hey, who knows?

Our brains are wired to spot patterns. We look for the connections between things, and we constantly try to match what we see to what we’ve already seen. There’s something wonderful about spotting the unusual, about noticing difference.

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I spotted this the other day……a discarded cigarette packet lying on the wall of a cemetery…..makes you think……so, did this…..

at the station the smokers throw their fag ends onto the end of the line…..just beyond the buffers. Wonder if they actually hit the buffers??

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You know that thing that happens where a noise stops and it’s only when it stops that you realise just what a noise it was? Well, I had a similar experience yesterday and today. When I went out for a walk yesterday this is what I saw –

No, I don’t mean Stirling Castle, I see that every day. I mean the blue sky! Look at it! Not a cloud in sight! Then as I walked to the railway station this morning it was so light I couldn’t believe it. I began to wonder if I’d slept in, or if the clocks had changed and I’d missed it. It feels like we’ve gone from weeks and weeks of winter darkness, just suddenly into Spring sunshine….

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What I love about something like this, is that if you dismiss it as "just ice", then you miss what's amazing about it. Look closely and you'll see patterns and configurations you've never seen before. In fact, this particular, specific spread of ice crystals will be unique. You will never see exactly this array of crystals of these specific sizes and angles ever again. Even though the ice begins to form out of "just water", it is impossible for anyone to predict which crystals will grow to which size and in which particular places. Isn't that amazing? Something as commonplace as water turning to ice is unpredictable in its detailed outcome. Imagine how much more difficult it is to know the future for something as complex as a whole human being……

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