Queen Anne’s Lace. July 15, 2008
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature, macro photos.Tags: queen anne's lace, singularities, raging existentialist rants, the Mandelbrot set, crab spideers
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What a common sight – Queen Anne’s Lace, an invasive weed, “wild carrots,” waist-high and leggy, boring on the drive by, white umbels presented in profile as they bob and weave, floating like butterflies, dodging the bees, unremarkable white blurs garnishing unremarkably sparse green foliage.
But please, do pull over. There’s a turn out, and it’s a short walk to back there, and you can bring the camera.
Because up close, that Queen Anne’s Lace might look like this:
Atop a single graceful stem, an umbel of florets explode like the night sky above Poet’s Seat Tower on the Fourth of July, a glorious little disk expanding into the universe like a nascent galaxy,and at it’s heart, near the Event Horizon, a singularity:
Another iteration, another paradigm, another vision of the beauty and mystery of That Which Is, a whole ‘nother universe to acknowledge.
Will there be life in that universe?
Wow. Such profundity. No, really. I’m letting your words sink while I take another look at the images. Exquisite.
Thank you, my friend
Namaste
sink IN. Sowwy.
Ha. I just got a message from WordPress: You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
Hmmpf.
… how you make the common seem magical. I saw a ton of this weed (flower) on our family trip to the Hunter Mountains on 7/4. Thanks for re-capturing those moments for me.
the red center is the queen…the rest the lace.
lil’, legend has it that the red spot is the blood of the Queen who pricked her finger while making the lace. But I like your representational take on it better. I always was a sucker for the Simple Explanation!
Well, not really. But I liked this one.
BTW, did anyone notice the little hunter in the last photo? The “you betcha” link explains it.
yer right… i truncated the story… and usually i go on and on…