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Eliza Waters 
Braille in nature! ☘️🍀
Ha, yes! A fun thing to come across. 🙂
How wonderful!
Thank you, Cindy!
This is a beautiful observation, Eliza.
Thank you, Anne. Another of nature’s marvelous patterns.
So fun!
Yes, it was fun to see this perfect track. Thanks, Su.
How delightful. Very different from our environment – sitting in Bordeaux station on the last leg home.
MJ
Thanks, MJ. You must be glad to be back to Le Shack!
So well seen
Thank you, Derrick!
Nice photo. We have had so much wind that I’ll be raking and picking up pine cones for days once it warms up a little.
Thanks, Judy. Yes, lots here, too. I raked up 5 5-gal. buckets to use as kindling, they are great fire-starters.
You sure do enjoy Mother Nature’s offerings! A pine-cone path. It reminds me of those metal parts on a music box roll.
…..it’s called a ‘comb’
Yes!
That I do… I never tire of her art. 😉
Wow, I’ve never seen that! Thanks for showing me a new thing! 🙂
A perfect combo of new snow, more cones coming down and gusty winds. 🙂
Love that pattern! How was it made, do you think?
Gusty winds rolling the cone over the snow… we’ve had some fierce winds this past week. Always do around March, probably because of the position of the earth to the sun and the solar wind at equinox (affects the auroras, too).
Great find!
This pattern looks like it was formed in the same way as your ’embossed’ leaf a while back. It’s such fun — I often laugh at insects, but this is the first time I’ve laughed at a pine cone!
Thanks, Linda. Yes, it is similar… fresh dusting of snow, then gusty winds. Lots dancing across the yard!
Delightful!
Thank you, Debra!
Magical! I can just picture that pine cone rolling across the snow…
We had pretty gusty winds, with a fresh dusting of snow, which brought down more cones to roll around like these. Kind if fun to see the pattern.
LOVE this!
Thanks much, Catherine!
Art in nature.
I never tire of it!
Quite an observation by you! This is beautiful. A pinecone print.
Thank you, Nancy… a fun thing to see. 🙂
Love it 🥰
Thanks, Val! x
What a neat observation, I love it!
Thank you, Donna! 🙂
What a little marvel! I haven’t seen that before. I need to pay more attention!
I often see tumbling leaf patterns, but with the abundance of cones this year, I found several patterns in the snow like these. Kind of fun.
So awesome Eliza! Really great shot.
Thank you, Sylvia!
♥️💨♥️🙌🏼🤗
🙂 Thanks, Susan!
What great shots, Eliza! Love to see the patterns made by the pinecone.
Thank you, Dale. Snow helps us see things we’d otherwise miss. 🙂
So true!
Love the all weather tread!
All-terrain, lol!
😂
A pinecone tire tread. A great eye you have, Eliza!
Pretty funny, Sandy… thanks!
Very cool!
Thanks, Jim!
Oh, my! Beautiful find. 😊
Thank you!
So cool that you caught evidence of the pine cone’s roll!
Thanks, Kris. It sure was gusty!
Hope you are doing well out there amidst the storms. 🙏🏼
Wonderful! 💙 xxx
Thank you, Xenia! 🙂
Beautiful composition! How clever nature is, Eliza…
Thank you, Kim!
I like it, a great capture of a pine cone moment. Reminded me of a grater. Is it icy snow?
Thanks, Amy. It was a dusting of powder, just enough for a decent print. Most days now are above freezing (except for the past few chilly days 🥶), so powder melts in the day and refreezes at night, resulting in crusty snow. Eventually, you get spring or corn snow, which is chunky-granular like a snow-cone.
Corn 🌽 ❄️! I love it..new to me.
It’s when the ice granules become about the size of a kernel of corn… usually in March or April when the day temps reach 40-50F. On ski slopes, a warm day can get rather slow, but once it freezes, yikes, you’ll break your neck!
I need to mull it over.. snow corn.
😀 Yeah, pretty crazy!
Amazing. I never would have imagined a pine cone making such markings. It must have been very windy to send that cone rolling.
Well spotted, Eliza.
Thank you, Vicki. Yes, we had several days of gusty winds up to 30mph. It brings a fair amount of deadfall down, including pine cones!
Mystery solved. 😀 … or is it? The wind might’ve moved the pinecone, but perhaps it had help? We may never know, because there are always mysteries within mysteries when it comes to the Mysterious! 😀
Marvels of Nature! 🙂
How fun. I can see the cone rolling across the ice in my mind’s eye.
Just a-blowin’ in the wind! 🙂
I love all the gems of nature you discover on your walks!🙂
Thank you, S! I try to find something of interest. 🙂
Beautifully put and taken!
Thank you, Belinda!
Wicked cool
🙂 We thought so, too. Nature amazes!
Another wonderful find Eliza! 😃
Thank you, Cathy!
I gasped when I saw the first photo, Eliza. So cool!
🙂 Thank you kindly, Jet!
Absolutely beautiful. I’d frame either one of them. Are those animal prints I see, as well?
Thank you, Julie. Yes, older animal prints… I’d guess squirrel in the first and our dog in the second. 🙂
So beautiful!
Thank you!
What a nice surprise!
Thank you, a fun find!
I’m glad you included the second photo. Embarassingly, I just admired the pattern in the first shot and then the realization came to me when I saw the second. Interesting phenomenon.
Thank you, Susie, glad you liked it. 🙂
What a clever, and very artistic pine cone! 🙂
Thank you, Joanne!
Very cool tracks! Reminds me of the moving rocks in Death Valley’s Racetrack.
Another good example of how the wind plays. 🙂
Eliza, this is an amazing photo. Wow!
Thank you, Alys!
That’s unique, at least in my experience. A rolling stone may gather no moss, but a rolling pine cone leaves marks in the snow.
Yes, rather cool to see the pattern it left.
Clever!
Thanks, Carol!