When I am walking along this road I often look at the “guard” rocks that keep us from driving onto the grounds and sometimes find interesting patterns which have been subjects of previous posts. I haven’t ID’d the lichen yet but this is more about Nature’s design. Let your pareidolia run wild. 🙂
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I love nature’s artwork and creativity. One never knows what to expect! Nice find, Steve!
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Thanks, Lori. Keeping my nose to the ground sometimes pays off. 🙂 These rocks have provided a few nice abstracts.
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Nice abstract! What do you mean by driving onto the grounds … someone’s property? Is it like a fence or even with the pavement?
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The rocks line the road in different locations within the park, Denise. Kind of like guardrails, thus guard rocks. 🙂 Just something to keep us on the pavement as we drive through. There are other parts where we can park on the grass along the road but some places are less safe than others. Thanks!
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About a quarter of the way up from the middle of the bottom there seems to be a profile of a head looking toward the left.
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Yup, that’s one profile of someone upside down.
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Yes, I think the head is W.C. Fields, holding a hand up to wipe under his nose
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I didn’t recognize W.C. but he did have a nose that looked like it needed to be wiped.
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The contrasting textures are especially appealing to me; the colors complement one another well, too.
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Those are what attracted me initially. The visages came afterward. I thought you might come up with something completely different than anything i would see.
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Ha, I see Robert’s WC Fields and I see a woman’s profile facing him looking right, in red. Fun, Steve, and well seen.
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The woman’s profile was what I saw first after first noticing the lichen and rock textures. Then someone else down below. Only now that you and Robert mention W.C. do I see him. Thanks, Jane!
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There is beauty in thr infinite variety presented by the lowly plant lichen. Looking at the same collection of lichen on a rock I find something new in it every time I look.
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Yes there is, Peter. I have always found lichens interesting but only recently decided to learn more about identifying them. I understand the biology but figuring out who is who is challenging.
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Nice, reminds me of satellite images of Earth.
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Some folks elsewhere saw a map also. Thanks, Eliza.
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Lichens aren’t always easy as one might expect to photograph … yet you have done a really nice job here, Steve. It’s almost like a map.
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There is curvature to the rock so it was challenging to get a balanced focus. I got comments elsewhere that folks saw a map. I hadn’t and just faces. 🙂 Thanks, Pete!
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Very nice Steve! Reminds me of an aerial “view”!
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Thanks, Reed. It seems to suggest a map to many.
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