The world is full of different things than we expect. Even when we assume we know everything, things come at us in unexpected ways. This is sometimes a moment that makes us feel more alive. Because it reminds us that the world is full of mysteries we don’t know. And these don’t have to be big things. Life moments that make us look twice. Below we have listed a few such moments. Scroll down. Maybe these will remind you to look more carefully at your surroundings.
#1 Ice bending while sliding off a tin roof
#2 This monstera plant grew through itself
#3 This isn’t a lens flair, sunlight refracting atmospheric ice made it look like there were 3 suns in the sky this morning
#4 Darted a fly
#5 There was a cat at my local Home Depot
#6 A 10,000-12,000 year old glacial boulder inside a regular supermarket in Estonia
#7 This Gradient of Tomatoes from My Garden
#8 Sunflower growing on a tree
#9 Built my own cabinet and it looks like Sid from ice age evolving into a bird
#10 This adolescent Blue Jay halfway through puberty
#11 This sleepy sea lion used a boat bumper as a pillow
#12 The sunlight shines through the jug and makes the water look cool
#13 Heard strange noises outside of my house, should have guessed that it was just a hot air balloon doing an emergency landing
#14 Petrified Tree Trunk in Arizona Dating Back 225 Million Years
#15 My mom saw this while on a walk today
#16 static tattoo with “shaking” effect
#17 Not the beautiful Florida view anyone imagined! Courtesy of hurricane Ian.
#18 The mods are asleep! Let’s posts dams that are interesting!
#19 The Burning Man Exodus. Black Rock City Nevada, 10 Hours Long Traffic Jam.
#20 Stair dust corners introduced at the end of the 19th century to make sweeping easier. They keep dust from accumulating in the corners
#21 “The Uncensored Library” is a huge Minecraft map where anyone can read censored journalism from countries without freedom of press
#22 The pistol that shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 sparking World War I.
#23 Burning Man Festival
#24 Saudi Arabia has deployed solar-powered laser beacons in the Al Nafud Desert to guide lost travelers to water sources
#25 When a 6.8 earthquake hit Olympia, Washington in 2001, a shop owner found that a sand-tracing pendulum recorded the vibrations.
#26 “Experimental forestry” in Japan to measure the effect of tree density on growth
#27 Princess Diana’s Grave is isolated on the island in the middle of an ornamental lake, and not open to the public.
#28 The Red House That Survived Hawaii Wild Fires
#29 Complete Ancient Rome replica 36 years in the making
#30 Before and after the recent storm in Dubai. I now have a lake view apartment 😀
