Grain Patterns That Look Like Something!

I always look for a familiar map of somewhere to turn up in the spalt lines when I turn spalted maple. But here’s an image I wasn’t expecting in an ash platter I’m currently working on. Does anyone else see the speeding bullet with its accompanying shock waves slicing through the air? By the way, that’s not my finished, final cut!

 

I'm guessing there is a bullet nearby.

 

Could be Ming the Merciless chasing Flash Gordon.

 

I was expecting an image of Elvis, but now that I look at it, it does look like a somewhat bulbous bullet and shock waves.

I recently made a small maple bowl for my grandson, but it wasn't until after I'd turned it, sanded it and finished it that I noticed a smiling face in the grain. It reminds me of a Sunday comics character named Ziggy:

 

My neighbor was over the other day, and says he saw a "map" in this spalted maple bowl.
I guess I can see the Mediterranean sea there, but Italy seems to be missing!

 

That’s a coincidence! A spalted maple platter I once turned had an almost perfect map of Europe except that Great Britain was missing.

 

@Kevin: Your map was predicting Brexit

 

I saw a speeding space ship.... I have had other people point out things that I missed. One was a bird, head, eye, body and wings. Many faces. You just never know what will turn up...

robo hippy

 

Haha, I like that observation!

 

Watching You ??

 

This one might be more like an ink blot test, but I see a dragon flying through clouds into the sun

 

I see it too! Nice bowl, is that ash?

 

Thank you. Yes, it is ash. One of several to come out of this massive crotch...

 

Unlikely that it would retain that shape after impact.