Maple Root Pig

When I'm outside I tend to be a cloud watcher. I usually have some sort of camera with me and now have hundreds of pictures of clouds, cloud formations, and things I see in clouds (an Old English sheepdog puppy, a black faced sheep, dragon, thumb prints, a rooster, etc).

On Wednesday I was walking with a friend on Locust Street in Holyoke, MA past the home of a late button collector friend who passed away about three and a half years ago. We'd been to her house many times for meetings, to visit, and to meet to hike down to watch the St. Patrick's Day parade. We've parked along the street in front of her home and walked by on the way to meetings at the Holyoke Health Center where we 'rent' a conference room (they would let us have the room one Wednesday morning a month for free but we insist on paying them $40 to use the space per meeting- which they use to buy something for the residents there- our donations have bought a large flat screen TV and paid for entertainment events- so it works out well!)

Anyway, Betty and I were walking past Martha's former home (new owners bought it last year) and I was looking at a tunnel beneath the roots on the tree belt between the sidewalk and curb. Betty was looking at the tree roots that had tunneled beneath the sideway and popped up here and there in the front lawn. She said, "Oh, look! A fairy ring!: Yes, a root had grown in a perfect circle near the inside edge of the sidewalk. Cool.

Then she goes, "Look! A pig! It's a pig!" I looked and sure enough there was what looed like a flattened (although somewhat two dimensional) sleeping pig formed by another root! I had to dig out my cellphone and get a couple shots of that! (I put it on facebook as a What Do You See In This Picture? post. Most people saw the pig. My friend Patty saw a troll- close!) Jut to the other side of the pig was another circular formation, this one looking like a spiral.

We didn't want to linger any longer in front of the house, plus I had to get home to eat lunch and go to work, but next month I'm sure she and I will be checking out those crazy tree root formations in that front yard again as we walk past on the way to button club!

So- now I guess I won't always walk around cloud gazing...I'll have to look down and see what's there that will also amaze and delight me!

They saw everything can be found in nature and I'm starting to believe that!