Further notes on a new crop picture near Welsh Way on July 22, 2014: themes of “pi”, “beluga whales” and “undersea rescue” 

An amazing new crop picture appeared on July 22, 2014 near Welsh Way in Gloucestershire. It showed three circular arcs of relative length “1, 3 or 4” from a “polar clock”, similar to that used on Sony smart watches:  

Its third circular arc “3” ends with a large open circle or “decimal point”. Thus it would be reasonable to interpret these symbols as the famous mathematical constant “3-point-1-4” or “pi”.  

This crop picture appeared on July 22, which is called “pi day”, because that date may be written as “22 / 7” which equals 3.1428 and is a good approximation to pi = 3.1416. The polar clock when read in this way shows seven nearly equal angular sections, consistent with the month of July as seventh of the year.  

The centre of this crop picture even showed a cross-hatched pattern which resembles an “apple pie”!  

Here the crop artist was making a joke, as the common word play between “pie” and “pi”.  

We might also try to read the “time” from this crop picture in terms of a “pendulum clock”. In which case, the indicated date could be “7-2-5” or July 25: 

 

Perhaps we will see another amazing crop picture then?  

When we study the field location of this crop picture using Google Earth, we immediately see a remarkable artistic metaphor. Those three circular rings from the crop picture, which match pi = 3.14, are being compared by the crop artist to “bubble rings” as created by certain large cetaceans on Earth, particularly dolphins or beluga whales:  

Please watch this video (“beluga whale blowing bubble rings” www.youtube.com) if you unaware of such a phenomenon. Whales and dolphins seem to have an artistic sense like humans!  

That Welsh Way crop picture was drawn directly over where a “blowhole” on the “beluga whale” would be located. Three “rings” which emerge from its blowhole are being “swept” to the left, because this whale is “diving” to the right for some reason.  

Why should this “landscape whale” be diving to the right, while it blows bubble rings from its upper blowhole? When we study the landscape a little further away, in the direction towards where it is “diving”, we can see the image of another “whale” which is trapped below the surface and needs to be “rescued”:  

Beluga whales are renowned for their compassion and empathy toward other whales, or even toward human divers whom they have rescued on many occasions. Please watch this video to see one such example (“beluga whale rescues human diver” www.youtube.com).  

We humans do not have to sacrifice emotions and empathy, in order to gain greater intelligence. Rather we can learn from the whales, and achieve both (as “September” said on “Fringe”).  

Several people have commented to me that the “bubble ring” above the head of that “whale” looks like an “angelic halo”. Indeed, an “angel” shape appears in the landscape halfway along the long body of that “whale”, but was not shown here to save space.  

We see then that the new crop picture at Welsh Way on July 22 featured overlapping themes of “pi”, “beluga whales” and “undersea rescue”. What exactly might the crop artist be thinking? Perhaps there will be another remarkable crop picture soon, and we will learn more.  

Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)