Blogger: Crop Circles on the North Fork? Worth a Second Look

Every once in a while, the garden or nature makes us sit up and say, Wo-oah!  Driving past a local sod farm the other day, my spouse and I did a double-take. There in the field, was what looked suspiciously like a Crop Circle. We drove past it a second time and sure enough, etched into the sod was this perfectly round double-ring of ruts. The marks do not look like tire tracks. There are no vehicle tracks to or from the  site, just that unusual shape carved into the earth. The outer ring is the deepest of the two. Okay, so there has to be a perfectly good explanation for those gouges. The spot in the field is adjacent to an area with a perpetual drainage problem. But still, the absolute symmetry and odd nature of the circles were enough to give a guy pause.

Point is, with most of the foliage gone now, this is the time to observe nature in an entirely different mode. Flowers, even leaves are so overwhelming when they are in season, that is easy to miss so much going on around us. Are we experiencing the beginnings of a dark and austere time in our North Fork garden? Or an opportunity to find the mystery, even beauty in what we suddenly find laid bare to view? Perception, sometimes, can be all. 

BTW: know what made those tracks? Curiousity is killing me.