TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Mystery Photo!

By TigerHawk at 12/29/2010 11:06:00 PM

For TigerHawk Points, bragging rights, and glory among those who count, tell us what this is a picture of. Specificity matters. Oh, and if you are one of my Facebook friends, please do not spill the beans.

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12 Comments:

By Anonymous, at Wed Dec 29, 11:35:00 PM:

Looks like the lights for one of those fancy christmas trees, as seen from inside (or else the ball that drops in Times Square)

By Anonymous, at Wed Dec 29, 11:42:00 PM:

The masonic all seeing eye after a little too much acid.
Or more than likely as fuzzyface say's the inside of a tree.

By DJMoore, at Thu Dec 30, 12:01:00 AM:

It's a cone of lights strung around a transmitting tower to look like a giant tree; photo taken from the base of the tower. The spiral effect could well be brighter bulbs distributed to simulate tinsel, or could be bulbs brightening in sequence, which would be really cool to watch, like a giant barber pole.

I can get no more specific than that; I don't know where this tower is.

By Anonymous, at Thu Dec 30, 01:16:00 AM:

Zilker Park tree Austin, TX

By Mystery Meat, at Thu Dec 30, 07:36:00 AM:

Does this have anything to do with your recent colonoscopy?

By TigerHawk, at Thu Dec 30, 08:14:00 AM:

Anon 1:16 nailed it. Very nice.

By SR, at Thu Dec 30, 12:02:00 PM:

Surely taken with your camera phone.

By Anonymous, at Thu Dec 30, 04:24:00 PM:

Hershey's Chocolate Kiss caught in a spiderweb

By Anonymous, at Thu Dec 30, 05:30:00 PM:

It is a spider in the center of its web with dew or rain on it. The backlighting is the sun. If I had to guess the type of spider, it would be a sun spider. I will go one step farther and say, ‘A girl spider’.

I have seen this phenomenon before, and it is always breathtakingly beautiful. Even if I am wrong, it is a great picture.

By AnthonyH, at Thu Dec 30, 11:33:00 PM:

My wife got it before I read the comments, but after Anon 1:16.

The brighter lights, she says are spinning in a spiral pattern. She said that she spun around inside it when she was pregnant with our first child (which was not a good idea!).

Happy New Year, All!

By AnthonyH, at Thu Dec 30, 11:35:00 PM:

Excuse me, she says they're "making a spiral". She was doing the spinning!

By Anonymous, at Sat Jan 01, 05:39:00 PM:

Looks like an oil rig with lights strung from it top.
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