Natural Ephemerals: Spun

A short month of short phenomena. Landscapes are usually big and stayed and still; these are little and noisy and quick. Don't blink.

Typical March, the whole landscape running sideways in sheets of water. This was more dessert than desert. And when I returned twenty-five minutes later it was gone.

So, whence the bubbles? Flowing down from upstream? Bubbling up from the culvert? Originating at that babbly interface at the base of the cone? And why a cone? Centrifugal force? And whither? (Did it flush?)

Bubble brevis, ponder longer.

And we normally don't think of anything circular as oscillation, but I couldn't tell you why. Someone argued that social oscillations (hemline up, hemline down) are indeed round at the end like Carmel's peanut-shaped roundabridges— that nations save not about- face. 2019-03-21-1455 44.4732 -93.1474. CBS Mornings, “Indiana city uses roundabouts to make roads safer while helping the environment,” YouTube. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Natural Ephemerals: Spun," RSS Longa, 23 April 2026, public domain via CC0 1.0.