Abstract Art on a Northern Lake

[jesse_the_k]

I’m staying near a northern Wisconsin lake at 45.658965, -89.497625, where I’ll be revelling in 15:45 hours of daylight on the summer solstice. The logged-over forest is mostly red pine, and wow they’re pollinating—creating very abstract art near the dock

Pine pollen forms semi-opaque circles over shallow sandy beach

Thick clumps of chartreuse pine pollen blob into a seahorse-shaped island on shiny dark lake waters

Rippled dark lake surface dusted with lime green pine pollen, reminiscent of Venetian marbled end papers.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Such interesting patterns!

[shirebound]

Woo, that's a heavily-pollinated lake! It really does look marbled.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I love abstract nature art. Sometimes I get good ones of snow.

[full_metal_ox]

Looks like you happened upon a lake of Kambaba Jasper!



(Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516145201/https://thecrystalcouncil.com/crystals/kambaba-jasper)

[gremdark]

Gorgeous!

[cmcmck]

Abstract art! :o)