{"id":4138,"date":"2021-02-28T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:06:47","slug":"driveway-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Driveway ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skim of morning ice is the acme of ephemerality, catch it while you can. Here&#8217;s what I found soon after sunrise today:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50989456811\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"28ii2105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50989456811_c66856a8d5.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"500\" alt=\"28ii2105\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nMy first thought was a mirroring, and it&#8217;s a nice enough image,<br \/>\nwith the expected array of creatures:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50989572902\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"28ii2105x2adj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50989572902_82771006b5.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"500\" alt=\"28ii2105x2adj\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then I saw the familiar illusion in the northwest corner:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50988784038\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"28ii2105crop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50988784038_b15c726ecc.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"500\" alt=\"28ii2105crop\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/FT\/twoface.jpg\" width=40%><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSo how did it get there? Or was it even ever <i>there<\/i>, or was it just in my Mind&#8217;s Eye? Where did it <i>go<\/i>? Non-trivial questions.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd a bit later I discovered this in the southern end of the original image:<\/p>\n<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/50989383798\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"28ii2105crop2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50989383798_e4e0dbefa9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" alt=\"28ii2105crop2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center>The jury is still out on what it is, though I&#8217;m tempted to see it as a 1950s hood ornament.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/FT\/Pontiac.jpg\" width=85%><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skim of morning ice is the acme of ephemerality, catch it while you can. Here&#8217;s what I found soon after sunrise today: My first thought was a mirroring, and it&#8217;s a nice enough image, with the expected array of creatures: And then I saw the familiar illusion in the northwest corner: So how did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,15,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-metastuff","category-photography","category-tessellations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}