I noticed this rock formation in Adams Brook some time ago as I drove between Shutesbury and Amherst. It’s near the Robert Frost Trail crossing on Shutesbury Road in North Amherst. I still haven’t got quite the composition I want for the brook as it passes here, but I did think this would make a nice abstract. There are a few ways to interpret it. What’s yours? 🙂
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Some pre-historic animal!
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It has been sitting there for a while just waiting to devour another meal. 🙂
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😁
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My first thought was an alligator, mouth wide, about to devour some unsuspecting photographer.
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Yes, but Steve was many miles away.
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The wide-open mouth is a given, but what kind of animal it belongs to is up for grabs. Likewise open to interpretation is whether what’s inside the mouth is the creature’s tongue or prey getting devoured.
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I was afraid it was your alligator, Steve, that caught you during a momentary lapse of attention, but I’m glad to be proven wrong. 🙂
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So am I!
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I think Tanja got it right.
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Alligator.
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Crocodile eating a mummy.
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Alas poor mummy, we hardly knew ye.
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Petrified, mummified, fossilized chomposaurus mid-chomp.
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Chomposaurus! 😀 😀
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A whale, ready to chomp on a really big turtle.
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A whale’s meal on the half shell.
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Croc. Eating what though, I don’t know.
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There’s some suspicion it might have been a photographer. 🙂
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Haha!
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An alligator eating a turtle! 🙂
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The winner of the competition with Dave’s whale maybe. 🙂
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😀
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Jaws ready to grab something. A rather ominous looking rock, jutting forth as a good study for using ones imagination.
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The jaws have it, but we’re kind of up in the air whose jaws and what the meal might be? 🙂
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I’m sort of philosophically opposed to seeing things like funny animals in landscapes, clouds, etc., but you’ve done a good thing here, giving and getting plenty of chuckles. So I’ll just step back and keep quiet. 😉
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It’s not a regular thing with me either, but a little fun once in a while is good for all. It’s funny, most of these Pareidolia subjects that I do share are reflections for the most part. Although occasionally I come across one of my doppelgangers while hiking. 🙂
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Whatever it is, I think it’s sticking it’s tongue out at you – *sound effect* – pbbbbt! 🙂
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I also thought it looked like it was laughing at the silly photographer. 🙂
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Well, I’m in favor of seeing ‘things’ in nature, and have been since those long, lazy childhood afternoons when we gave up bike riding and spent hours lying in the grass, looking for creatures in the clouds.
I saw this a couple of days ago, and came to my own conclusion immediately — it’s a laughing dog! See its crinkled eye, almost hidden by the smile wrinkles?
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I’ll partake in it from time to time. I didn’t do much cloud-gazing as a kid so maybe I am making up for that when I do “see things”.
I knew I could count on you to see something no one else would see. Including me. But, yes, there is is, cute as can be. There is a store here in town, Laughing Dog Bicycles. 🙂
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