We've come to expect certain things from nature, like snow in the winter, leaves on trees in the summer, cows that moo and zucchini that fries up perfectly in butter. But the truth is, we're all at its whim.
Just in case you need a reminder that nature will just do what it wants, we've got some examples.
A haboob, or dust storm, met up with a rain storm over this town. As you might expect, dust + rain = mud. Yum.
That's one snail with two shells — wonder if one is a summer shell it uses to get away from it all.
They're lime slices. I'm not one to return produce to the store, especially a little lime, but dang if I wouldn't feel ripped off to find so little actual lime inside.
I've only ever seen brown pine cones in nature, but apparently some varieties of fir can grow blue cones.
Growing a beard would just look weird when your whiskers only grow on one cheek, don't you think?
For example, the little infinity symbol swirls on this doggo's toes. Here's hoping they bring good luck to the pooch!
And the color splits right down the middle of the petal — oddly pretty, right?
It's actually three different trees — two red and one green — but they've grown together so well that they look like a single tree.
And you end up with a blob like this, with just a thin membrane holding in all the goo.
I believe they call the moustache/soul patch combo a Van Dyke.
I mean, it takes a determined mushroom to force its way up from the earth through asphalt.
Not good for the pipes, I'm sure, but hey, free tomatoes.
Why does a double strawberry look like so much more of a feast than a single one?
I don't know whether you call it "Starry Wood" or "Woody Night" but either way, nature did some art here.
In the most direct way possible, apparently. Never seen a cactus reach out an arm like that for the precious vitamin D before.
But indeed that's what this is, in all its blobbish, decidedly non-crystalline glory.
In color, it's not so vibrant, or shiny, but it IS unusual, which is because there's iron in that there quartz, causing the rusty hue.
They look like they're extra handy for getting messages across in traffic at least.
Not sure how useful it is, but that is a good party trick.
That really doesn't look comfortable, but apparently it's just and extra-flexy digit. Yowsers.
