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| + | ''I see dead people''. Er, I mean, ''I find mutant clovers''. (Sometimes called "Four-Leafed Clovers", but I'll include more :D ) | ||
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| + | I started finding them when I was a kid on lazy summer days on the family farm. I guess it laid the pathways for good clover spotting algorithms in my brain, because I keep finding them. Before starting this page, I'd found several with 5 leaves, one with 6, a few with unseparated leaves, etc. Interestingly enough I've found more around roadsides than on Argonne National Laboratory itself, even though I expected the mutation rate to be higher there. But those car exhausts really cause havoc on clover I guess :( | ||
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| + | So, a couple of years ago, I decided to let the mutants take over and stop picking them and start taking pictures. (OK, really I was tired of trying to preserve them after I picked them.) So.. here are some pictures. (Be sure to click on the thumbnails - they're cropped out from the larger composition.) | ||
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| + | Here is an interesting article on [http://www.rugbyschool.net/sub/phusion/articles/four_leaf_clovers.htm Why Are Four Leaf Clovers So Rare]. It also explains why the 4-leaves are so often found in the 3-leaf + 1 formation that I've noticed since I started taking pictures. (i.e. it looks like one leaf has been tacked into a regular 3-leaf cluster.) | ||
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Revision as of 20:59, 16 May 2007
I see dead people. Er, I mean, I find mutant clovers. (Sometimes called "Four-Leafed Clovers", but I'll include more :D )
I started finding them when I was a kid on lazy summer days on the family farm. I guess it laid the pathways for good clover spotting algorithms in my brain, because I keep finding them. Before starting this page, I'd found several with 5 leaves, one with 6, a few with unseparated leaves, etc. Interestingly enough I've found more around roadsides than on Argonne National Laboratory itself, even though I expected the mutation rate to be higher there. But those car exhausts really cause havoc on clover I guess :(
So, a couple of years ago, I decided to let the mutants take over and stop picking them and start taking pictures. (OK, really I was tired of trying to preserve them after I picked them.) So.. here are some pictures. (Be sure to click on the thumbnails - they're cropped out from the larger composition.)
Here is an interesting article on Why Are Four Leaf Clovers So Rare. It also explains why the 4-leaves are so often found in the 3-leaf + 1 formation that I've noticed since I started taking pictures. (i.e. it looks like one leaf has been tacked into a regular 3-leaf cluster.)
Images with this symbol 
have stereo versions associated with them. Click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized image as well as the stereo images.
2007
2007-05-02@13-50
Irish FOURtune
Mutant hunting season 2007 has begun!
2007-05-02@13-52
FOURtune keeps smiling
Outside my office
2007-05-16@13-55
Showing great FOURtitude
Path near building 212
Links
- Old Teenage Mutant Karate Clover page on tometheus.com
