A Green Spongy Foam Forest

While this looks like an overgrown lichen or bizarre moss, it is actually squishy green packing foam. I yanked a piece from one of the boxes while packing away Christmas ornaments.

I was most intrigued by the prismatic rainbows sparkling in the thinnest membranes of the foam. We've looked at foam before here, and it too was full of rainbows.

I like how this one looks like an alien forest, and am happy to add it to my collection of alien forests,  farms, and seed pods.

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Weird Beach Thing #2

We found this on a beach on Long Island and it is just so bizarre. It is about the size of a silver dollar, matte black, pointy, and very hard. However it is light, like it's hollow inside.

At first, I thought it was a strange squished blob of tar that had hardened, or a piece of a toy that had snapped off. I briefly thought it might be an alien egg casing, planted on Long Island so they may begin their takeover of Earth there.

But the bristly strange circular opening makes me think none of these guesses are correct.

Now, I think it's likely a seed casing for weird underwater plants. But i've never seen anything like this before. It's truly bizarre.

{CORRECTION: Thanks to a lead from Kenon, we now know this is a water chestnut seed, apparently reeking havoc to underwater plantlife here in the northeast.}

If you have any idea at all what this could be, let me know!

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Weird Beach Thing #1

Here's a thing our friends found on the beach, and suggested for a Morning Macro post. It appears to me to be a sort of coral or barnacle. It looks like a white rock with these segmented pockmarks, which I assume are the homes of the little beasties who made the thing.

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Portals to Other Worlds

Continuing with our plant theme, I've got a few that look like entries to other worlds or other dimensions. In a way, these actually are exactly that, entries to a diminutive dimension inside the blooms.

Above and at bottom are a couple shots of pollen stands greeting our journey inside the flower. Just below here are the complicated folds of a marigold. I've stripped the color from the marigold since we all know what they look like anyway, and removing the color helped emphasize many of the details of the marigold petals.

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The Rest of the Weird Plant Things That Violet and I Found

Alright, here's the rest of the weird stuff V and I found at the park. A strange pit-like thing covered in spines, some brown, some green. It looked like an alien egg or something.

I guess I'm too lazy to figure out what these things are. A google might turn up an answer. Or maybe not.

We found a really strange thing at the beach the other day. Totally strange and alien. I don't have a photo of it, but we think it's a seed pod or something.

And that's what these things appear to be too.

Here's the other seed pod thing. Again, with the size comparison on a penny, I think it's helpful!

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Weird Seedy Flowery Things

Violet and I made it our mission today to find tiny things at the park that we could shoot in macro. So we searched through rocks and leaves and flowers, and found the strange thing above.

It appears to be a strange seed case or flower bud or something. We like that it is fuzzy. It's actually quite small, which made examining it at the park a little difficult. But we were pretty sure it would be cool when we photographed it. When magnified, it looks like a ball with bed head.

I'm going to try to include a small reference image for my macro shots, as you can see to the left. This will help you to get a better idea of the size of the things we are looking at close up.

Below is another photo of the weird bed head ball.

Then, we found something that looked like the bed head ball, cracked open and blooming. I don't know if it actually is a next-stage bed head ball or what, but that's what our imagination has decided. You can see this below and judge for yourself! Here's the reference image of the weird bed head ball flower, to the left.

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More of the Alien Fungus Farm

Another old one, well not that old. It's from August '08 in Muskoka, Canada.

Found these odd little guys on a decaying railroad tie. I love the variety among these fungi, and the wicked colors. Chartreuse, and piney green and white and candy apple red. I hope I see them again with my latest lens setup, so I can get closer... see what these are made of.

These remind me a little of the old Snorks cartoon.

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Alien Life Forms

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This is one of several photos I took of a bizarre fungal forest in Muskoka, Canada.

These little fungi looked like alien plant life; strange branchy things, something that looked like a tiny evergreen, odd Snork-like things with red bulbous ends. I loved how strange these little stands of fungus were.

As for size, they were only about 9mm high. This was shot in daylight using my 18-125mm and a macro filter attachment.

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