May 31 Day 84: See It Now? AKA Zooming Out

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On May 29, I posted beautiful and strange images, asking if you could identify them. Find the results below. Each gallery starts with the original image and adds one or two more images to show the original subject more clearly.

The Sarracina (aka pitcher plant) has blossomed. They are strange indeed.
I see an eye—stylized but it looks like an eye. Or a beetle carapace. Instead it is a beautiful dragonfly.
Hair. Long beautiful hair. Dog? Llama? Vicuña? Nope. Gibbon. In the Knoxville Zoo.
Definitely part of a ballon structure. But what shape? Why it’s looking through a Sierpinski Tetrahedron of course. April 2019 Mini Maker Fair at UW Tacoma.
August 21, 2017. The Solar eclipse as seen through a colander in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
It could be a desert flower laden with dew and glistening in the morning sun until you realize the scale. It is a Chihuly in the Desert Botanical Garden near Phoenix, AZ. Because what does a Tacoma girl do when she travels out of town? Apparently she finds the Chihulies.

All pictures were taken with my iPhones over the years.

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Mathematician. Mother. Wife. Leader. I am the Executive Director of Seattle Universal Math Museum after many years working as a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Mother of Anson and Zachary. Wife to Mark. President of the Mathematical Association of America 2021-2022. Past-President of MAA 2023.

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