Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Our yard holds a wide range of subject matter for "Patterns in Nature". I had a hard time deciding which photograph to submit to the group, but in the end I opted for this blossom on one of the Japanese Anemone plants I added to the front flower bed in 2012. It didn't bloom last year. This year, I thought it was another variety of coral bells, but then the buds didn't look quite right. It's only because I saw a tweet from Canadian Gardening that I remembered I'd planted three Japanese Anemone plants last fall!

Anyhow, one of the three plants is blooming this year. The blossoms actually remind me a little bit of Alberta Wild Rose blossoms. But there's one big difference - the sort of scaly looking lime green centers (this part is yellow on a wild rose blossom).

Intricate ice crystals growing on a window pane in winter in Michigan, USA

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Rippled stone along Wheeler Peak Summit Trail in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Closeup of spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Common Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, leaves in May in Michigan, USA

This is a tree trunk. I have no idea what made all the little holes. I don't think I want to know. LOL

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

DandiLion macro.

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

[Fagus sylvatica "Borneyensis"]

Shadows of an oak tree on the snow in Mecosta County, Michigan, USA

Horsetails (Equisetum sp.) growing in shallows of Nada Lake, with reflections of Stuart Range of peaks in The Enchantments, Cascade Range, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Washington State, USA

Ripples catching sunlight on Mitchell Creek, Clay Cliffs Nature Area in Big Rapids, Michigan, USA

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

[Matteuccia struthiopteris]

in rain

Five-sided symmetry

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Inspiring patterns found in nature. © Dawn Clarkson

Columnar basalt formations along Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach in Iceland {No model releases; available for editorial licensing only]

Painting from the recent solo exhibition Chronocromie: The Colour of Time, held at the Air Gallery, London in October 2010.

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Oriental Bittersweet, Celastrus orbiculatus, an invasive vine twisting toward forest canopy, Woodland Park and Nature Preserve, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Bubbles, created in winter by the photographer, rapidly form ice crystals on the inside surfaces, Michigan, USA,

This is just one of many parts of a decaying tree that had an incredibly textured surface painted with the colors of various lichens. Lichens are a type of fungus. Some are flat like this, others look like mushroom caps growing on the sides of trees and others sport intricately branched structures. This scene was photographed at the Garden of Eden Trail at the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve in Liberty County, Florida.

Water drops and reflections on a car hood in Michigan, USA

Wind has blown snow into rhythmic patterns on the frozen surface of a fjord in the Westfjords region of Iceland

Gray Pine, Pinus sabiniana, needles close up in Pinnacles National Park, California, USA

Parents analyze structure and function in objects from nature during interactive keynote STEM workshop for parents conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

An interesting arrangement on lines, patterns and textures on this log I found on this mornings shoot. My goal in photographyis wherever I can, to notice things most people miss.

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#19. Patterns in Nature

Patterns created by overnight freezing of ice on a March night in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA