This caught my eye this morning, and I immediately envisioned it as something that might make a nice abstract image in a photograph.
I know what “efflorescence” is only because when I worked as a litigation paralegal many years ago, we had a case involving shoddy construction. The brick walls were covered with a crystallized white powdery substance, and I can’t remember now if the cause was poor quality (or incorrect) mortar or failure to include weep holes. But I do remember that term, “efflorescence,” because it was a phenomenon I’d noticed all my life, and I’ve always loved learning the “backstory” of things like that.
Apparently the term stuck with me, because even after 40 years, I knew what I was looking at this morning when I saw these fluffy, crystalline puffs on the wall 😀
Katherine Wikoff 
It could make kind of a cool desktop background!
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Ooh, I like that!
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That’s quite pretty, actually!
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I thought so, too! In fact, I almost even used that word when I wrote the post. Then I thought, well, it is stuff that oozed out of a wall. Maybe I should use a different word lol😂
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True true, “ooze” and “pretty” are rarely used in the same sentence 😂
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