Within the chaos there is a pattern and it is wonderful to behold!…

I have just spent the best three months of my life with my mum and my wife.

It sounds like the first couple of lines in a Country Western Song.

“I have just spent the best

three months of my life,

With my mum and my wife….”

Except that, this is just what I have done.

My mum is 85 years old and she still races through life with brave abandon.

Alana, is 32 years old and races through life with brave abandon.

My mum and my wife became best friends, (and me the common enemy having just mentioned their respective ages on line! )

Mum loves to watch TV. Not all day mind you, just “Heart Beat” at 1:00pm and “Midsomers Murders” at 3:00pm and then a “good movie”. And of course, anything educational, interesting or scientific can be watched anytime.

Alana likes this routine as well, of course she would, as mum and her are best friends.

It was during one of these scientific shows that mum rushed into the bedroom to insist with a cup of tea and a biscuit, that I come out to watch TV as “this was really good stuff!”

How could I resist!

The TV show was marvelous. A show about Fractals and Chaos and Patterns.

Mum took pictures on her digital camera of the interesting fractal images on TV.

I am not sure if mum uploaded the pictures to her computer or if she took the camera’s digital memory card to “Boots” to have them printed out on photographic paper but the pictures she took were then put inside her photo album. Nothing like good old fashioned hard copy!!

A few days later and mum comes home with a paperback edition of “Chaos”, a book she found on a Charity Shop expedition with Alana.

The book explains in great detail the formation of fractal formulae’s and how patterns emerge from chaos that look like Fractal images that remind us of the patterns we see in nature in sand dunes or in say the shape of trees or tributaries from space. etc…

Mum spent a few days reading out loud from this book, mostly I dare say when I was trying to watch some rugby of some soccer in TV, which are on the “not approved but tolerated” TV  list

Needless to say I got sucked in, to the Chaos conversation that is, not the Rugby.

I downloaded an application called ChaosPro that renders fractal images on your computer.

I made this picture when I was showing mum how to use the software.

So mum prints it out on A 4 photographic paper at full resolution on her bubble jet printer.

The cost alone in ink would have made many people not try this.

The picture looks amazing printed out. I am sure she will frame it. The Gold between the blue and the black looks like gold leaf!

Mum and I have this picture on our desktops as wallpaper.

We see ourselves repeated though time itself, always similar but never exactly the same. “It just the way we are Darling”

Patterns in the chaos.