Are sumac drupes cast into snow by birds random?
No. Are rowan berries random?
No. Are yellow dock seeds cast onto the snow by wind random?
Are the scales of the bark of a ponderosa pine tree random?
Hardly! Are berries fallen to the ground with frost random?
Are the stalks of grass random?
No. Are windblown leaves random?
No. Are willow twigs random?
No. ln each of the images above, a different colour red is attached to a different intersection between randomness and order. It is the intersection that accounts, because the intersection is alive.
Is red random?
Hardly.
Categories: Nature Photography
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Are you dismissing randomness entirely? I feel it accounts for much of the unexpected and surprising beauty in the world. Order is not all. 😉
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Thanks for the correction. I was just intrigued with the notion that what appears random is somehow ordered and that the notion of randomness is overblown. I think now (now that you have pointed out that I may have gone too far) that there are two kinds of randomness in play. Great! A blog topic for post number 601. Thanks!
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I know what you mean by ‘random’ sometimes appearing ordered, but am very happy that often ‘random’ is just its own meandering state. Look forward to Post 601!.
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