Lots of communities are dedicated to nature's big pictures, the breathtaking vistas and scenic landscapes. Those are all great, but I find the details of the natural world to be just as much of a draw.
From ripples in sand, to whorls in bark, this community celebrates the beauty in the little patterns and textures of nature.
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world MelonYellow @lemmy.ca Kirkjugólf basalt stones
A natural monument that you can walk on located in southern Iceland. The name translates to "church floor."
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world MelonYellow @lemmy.ca Hexagonal basalt columns at Svartifoss, Iceland
Svartifoss waterfall, Iceland, 2024.
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world thrawn @lemmy.world Love the textures of this kale in my garden
[Image description: a photo looking down the center of a frilly-leaf kale, the edges of the leaves zigzag wildly, with an almost fractal appearance, and the colors range from dark green on the older outer leaves, to light green on the inner younger ones.]
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world quinacridone @lemmy.ml Meet The Spiral- A mega post!
Post main photo 'Spiral Shell' by Lani Elliott
Spirals are common in plants and in some animals, notably molluscs. For example, in the nautilus, a cephalopod mollusc, each chamber of its shell is an approximate copy of the next one, scaled by a constant factor and arranged in a logarithmic spiral.
'Ammonite fossil' by AWLsheep
'Curled up' by Laurie Wilson
Plant spirals can be seen in....the arrangement of leaves on a stem, and in the arrangement....of other parts as in composite flower heads and seed heads like the sunflower
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world HonkyTonkWoman @lemm.ee Orchid Patterns
Orchid at the Reynolda House Gardens in Winston Salem, NC.
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world cosmicrookie @lemmy.world Timber
From my walk earlier today
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world quinacridone @lemmy.ml 'Larryleachia picta, (Corona Macro)' by Martin Heigan
A macro photograph of a tiny Larryleachia picta flower's Corona.
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world anon6789 @lemmy.world Fluffy Frost
The frozen condensation on my liquid nitrogen tanks gets so wispy and delicate. It moves like hair blowing in the wind.
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Nature's Patterns - the beauty in the details @lemmy.world quinacridone @lemmy.ml 'Dendrites on Ice' by Ken Sorbyrock
Dendrites on Ice
Ice crack patterns on Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire, England.
Saturday 4 March 2006, 11.00am.
A general view of the location is here:
I have called these dendrites on ice, but they are really dedrites in ice, as clear ice fills the pattern. I am sure they should have a formal name, but as of March 2008, I have yet to find any reference to one.
On this occasion there had been about 10 mm of snowfall the previous evening, that probably fell on top of thin ice that had probably formed a few days earlier. The overnight of 2-3rd March had been very cold for early March in this part of England, c -8C. The daytime of Friday the 3rd was mostly sunny, with temperatures rising near to just above freezing. Most of the reservoir was open water, except this small area on the relatively sheltered east side.
The original ice formation on the lake surface may have been encouraged by the earlier snowfall.
The centre of each dendri