@jeremycherfas I love that guess. It's not right, but all the elements are reasonable.
@jean Not a thistle, but similar, Great Basin Sage, I think. Ice, but no pavement.
@cliffordbeshers Are the plants popping up through plastic sheeting (often used for weed control)?
@cliffordbeshers I kinda love it when I can’t get these. It means I’m going to learn something new. I’m weird like that, though. I also love debugging code.
@cliffordbeshers I didn’t catch this one in time but it’s a photo that’s almost better when you don’t know. My first thought was an island trapped in snow and ice from an airplane.
@JohnAN @cliffordbeshers Thats what I thought too. The patterns are probably due to freezing/ thaw.
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Here's another view of our giant puddle we call a lake.
It's very shallow, which accounts for the sagebrush popping up. As for the patterns in the ice, those might be skate marks to the left of the shadow; some neighbors tried it out, but declared the ice too bumpy. The rest, I think @odd is right, freeze/thaw, but I'm by no means certain.
@cliffordbeshers @odd There's something magical about ice. I lived briefly in a place down south where the surface of puddles would freeze overnight, and it created wonderful effects and illusions. That's a very far cry from Sydney at the moment :)
@odd Hi Odd :) We even have snow in some places. Actually, it snowed when I was living in that place where the puddles froze. It's a country town called Crookwell, 40km into the bush from Goulburn, in New South Wales. And I've never seen as many rabbits in my life as there were in Crookwell 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 🙂
@JohnAN I didn’t know. I guess the rabbits are considered a pest there, although I love them. 🐰🥕
@odd Everyone loves rabbits 🙂🐰🐇🙂 But they are a bit of a pest in Australia. They should have stayed in Europe ... and the UK :)