Our natural world is made of patterns. Some arise and disappear as clouds in the sky, but others appear across species, kingdoms, and beyond. You may want to visit my pages on what Gregory Bateson called “metapatterns” of which Tyler Volk and I and many others have proposed some specific types.
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Foggy Tubular Path, Catskills, New York 
Branches & Fuzzy-Bordered Clouds 
Mushroom, North Carolina 
Branch & Montauk Sky 
Sphere of Tubes 
In the Land of Mushrooms, North Carolina 
Branches & Sky 
Arrows of Wind & Bent Trees, Georgia (Symmathesy) 
Branching Tubes of Buds 
Sheets of Lichen 
Branching Tubes 
Branching Tubes 
Branching Tubes 
Branching Tubes 
Branching Tubes 
Branching Tubes 
Tubes & Tendencies Toward Sphericity 
Moon, Clouds, Mountain, & Tree – Buffalo Park, Flagstaff, Arizona 
Jellyfish Sphere & Tubes 
Century Plant Branching Tubes & Spheres of Tubes 
Cactus Tubes 
Spider’s Sheet of Tubes 
Hyrda – Fully Expanded 
Sea Anemone 
Desert Horned Lizard, Flagstaff, Arizona 
Grand Canyon Calendar of Layers 
Grand Canyon Calendar of Layers 
Colorado River in the Grand Canyon 
Gulls & Personal Space, Montauk, New York 
Winter Branching 
Mating Beetles 
Cactus Tubes and Tubes 
Tree Ring Layers with Layers of Lichen 
Sphere of Tubes on Tubes 
Meercat Territorial & Visual Sphere 
Orbiting Sphere 
Fibonacci Sheets on Tubes 
Branching Tubes in Search of Water 
Spheres on Tubes 
Sphere on Tubes 
Branching Tubes in Search of Sun 
High Desert Emergence of Tubes and Sheets