Ring Thing

Strange atmospheric vortexes? Alien doodles? Humans with way too much time on their hands? Whatever it is that produces crop circles--and my guess is that there's more than one explanation--they're often graphically interesting and sometimes beautiful. Here's a Canadian crop circle photo gallery that showcases recent examples of these mysterious mandalas.

(I'm back from vacation, back to my dull routine, so I thought I'd blog about something weird and transcendent [?].)