A weekend of that most suburban of tasks, gardening, reminded me of these pictures I took a few years ago.While trimming the excess growth from a wisteria I found this knot. It had probably been formed by the plants responding to stimulus of light and gravity.
This process had formed a figure of eight knot – beloved of climbers. I think it was the first new knot I learned when I started to climb.
So, here we have an example of apparent design without either purpose or intelligence. It was a good thing to find. This weekend of snipping and clipping yielded no such interest! But the mid afternoon tea and cake tasted mighty fine!
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19 comments:
Love the green knot you found.
That's amazing, I thought it must have been tied by someone! The knot is also beloved of sailors who also need stopper knots i rigging :)
Thanks for the visit to my blog :)
oh wow! how cool is that?!
I think tea and cake sounds like a fitting reward after gardening! And I agree, vines can make endlessly fascinating subjects. Sometimes they even spell out words (well, almost ;)
It is always so neat to find something so perfect and so unexpected in nature like this.
Unusual...but a nice knot.
great post!
Cool find!
Love what nature creates sometimes ~ awesome shot ~namaste, carol (A Creative Harbor)
What an amazing find. I've never seen anything like that.
Very cool! I'm not very familiar with wisteria, but am wondering...might this dry beautifully?
Great shot - very interesting!
Happy Macro Monday!
Lea
Lea's Menagerie
Great find. Happy Macro Monday!
Nita
What an amazing find!
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awesome find ~8)
Very interesting and unusual.
Regards and best wishes
That's cool Stewart!
Beautiful picture, looks like a pretzel. Have a nice week. Greetings from Romania.
Great find!
Happy MM
How interesting that the plant formed this knot naturally. Thanks for sharing.
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