When you think about it, life is full of sights that would seem pretty unusual without an explanation . But since know how things tend to work, these sights are commonplace.
We’re going to step slightly — but just slightly — outside the realm of the commonplace and see what we can come up with.
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“A few years ago I caught the fog blending almost seamlessly with the water.”
Anyone who spends time on the water knows what it’s like to see no horizon line. It can be both beautiful and disconcerting at the same time.
“Different varieties of eggplant for sale.”
I know two things about eggplants: they’re purple, and I don’t like them. I had no idea that quite so many varieties existed.
“My small tomato plant looks like it belongs in a Tim Burton film.”
Tim Burton’s distinctive style involves sinister-looking vine-shaped angles, so it stands to reason that a vine-like plant would eventually take on his vibe.
“A pineberry is a white strawberry variety with red seeds and a pineapple-like flavor.”
Honestly, this just doesn’t look as appetizing as your typical red strawberry. But it sure sounds intriguing. I don’t know about you, but I’d give it a try.
“There’s outline of my house on my neighbor’s roof where the sun’s rays are blocked this morning.”
Snowmelt patterns are always affected by shadows, but it’s rare that you see such a perfect outline of where one of those shadows was.
“I found conjoined twin cantaloupes at the farmers’ market.”
I’m no cantaloupe expert, but I’ve seen a few in the grocery aisle over the years, and they usually don’t look nearly this juicy.
“These points of reflected sunlight carving tiny channels in the snow over the course of the day.”
This is so cool. An atmospheric condition is causing a magnifying glass-type effect and melting the snow underneath.
“This is what broccoli looks like if you don’t harvest it.”
We tend not to think of the full life cycle of the stuff we eat. Just look at sesame seeds or broccoli. These plants can take on forms most of us have never seen before.
“The way this snow curled off my chair.”
I don’t know why it’s so incredibly satisfying to see the snow peel off so cleanly, but it is. Never seems to work like that on my windshield, though.
“The way the pillar in my home split the light ray into only the color indigo.”
You sometimes see a thin ray of light split up into the colors of the spectrum, but I’ve never seen one that just shows one of its colors.
“A random, big ice diamond by the road. My lighter for scale.”
A big ice crystal might not hold the same value or staying power as a real crystal, but it’s still worth taking a pic of.
“I bought a pepper pregnant with triplets.”
Peppers are really cool vegetables. They’re delicious, they change color, and sometimes they contain bonus baby peppers. Not that you’d want to eat them, but still.
“Mum boiled the purple potatoes with the corn. Now we have pink corn.”
I doubt the potatoes would add much additional flavor to the corn, but that pink dye-job is so perfect that it looks intentional.
“My drain was blocked so I pulled it up and a frog came out.”
It’s always a bit jarring when the outside world comes in, but we have to cut our animal friends some slack. This little guy was probably just thirsty.
“I traced around my vitiligo spots.”
Tracing the outlines around the patches of vitiligo not only makes the vitiligo stand out, it also makes this person’s hand look like an old map.
“Neighbor’s lemon tree grew a long one..”
It always blows my mind to see a fruit or vegetable that does not conform to the norm, especially when it’s juxtaposed against its regular siblings.
“When closing her eyes, my cat’s fur shows fake eyes.”
It took me a second to adjust my vision and see the fake ‘eyes’ in this cat’s coat, but now that I see them, I can’t unsee them.
“This weird caterpillar I found outside my house.”
Caterpillars are a fairly common sight, but practically every time I’ve ever seen one, I’ve been captivated by its weird, furry little body.
“Beautiful sap formation from a cashew tree.”
This pic was clearly taken somewhere tropical, but who needs icicles when you’ve got…cashew sap formations?
“The white sweet potato has a purple inside and the purple sweet potato has a white inside.”
There’s something beautiful about the duality of this pic. Perhaps the original concept of yin and yang started with potatoes.
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