Out of Curiosity...What is this?

[AtaguS]

Ok, I know the snow, or possibly this thing in general, has been here for a while but I switched to a bigger monitor recently and...what is this? It looks like a log, tied to a rope, attached to the edge of a rock ledge, dropped into the water below. But...what for? Too low to be a swing...not all that practical to be a fishing line, unless perhaps next Spring...help!

 

[mucksterme]

it's a doo hickey

 

[AtaguS]

it's a doo hickey

I wonder what these elves do with such a fine doo hickey

 

[shimmerfly]

In the deep swampy south they bait that line with chicken legs and catch gators
But I like the doo hickey better.
Wonder if they are good grilled?

 

[KarlD]

It looks to me like ice fishing. Cut a hole in the ice, drop a line, and wait. They just left and will return later to see if they caught anything.

 

[DeletedUser25004]

Looks like a streetlamp to me, one that is capable of dividing the waters!

 

[AtaguS]

Looks like a streetlamp to me, one that is capable of dividing the waters!

Crafty Elves!

Wonder if they are good grilled?

lol, there better not be gaters in that water.

It looks to me like ice fishing

I thought that, but it's a cold slippery perch. Then again, these are crafty, hungry elves so anything is possible haha!

 

[neeronie]

Ok, I know the snow, or possibly this thing in general, has been here for a while but I switched to a bigger monitor recently and...what is this? It looks like a log, tied to a rope, attached to the edge of a rock ledge, dropped into the water below. But...what for? Too low to be a swing...not all that practical to be a fishing line, unless perhaps next Spring...help!
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Just looks like artwork that is designed to have viewers ask questions and get engaged.

 

[Yogi Dave]

My vote goes with doo hickey. The lazy snowman is overlooking the stream to see when it's ready for the picking.

 

[neeronie]

My vote goes with doo hickey. The lazy snowman is overlooking the stream to see when it's ready for the picking.

yes, my vote too, lol, just posting these to show a Fellowship member (Ata) some of my watercolor abstract attempts. Pay no attention to them.

 

[AtaguS]

Wow nee, gorgeous. Movement, interest and peaceful all at once. Not easy to pull off. I really love it! I never could get water color to do what I wanted it to do. Always stuck to charcoal and chalk pastels myself.

My vote goes with doo hickey. The lazy snowman is overlooking the stream to see when it's ready for the picking.

Doo Hickey it is
Thanks everyone! Have enjoyed the speculation. It's always fun to discover something new in my city, even after all these years looking, lol...

 

[mikeledo]

It looks like a line from a wrench going into a well, sometimes having the technical term "dew-hickie."

 

[AtaguS]

@mikeledo What is it used for? Retrieving fallen things?

 

[mikeledo]

water

 

[AtaguS]

water

ahhhhhhh, ok. Wrench -and-bucket (?)...I follow you now lol lol .Clearly I'm a city elf and know nothing of wells.

 

[Pheryll]

The only thing I see is water dripping down onto a rock that is protruding in the stream.

 

[DeletedUser6303]

Love the imaginative and funny answers. I say snow melting onto the ground creating a puddle.

 

[DeletedUser25122]

Sauna for the thing living in the cave under the rock

 

[ajqtrz]

Since the rock is facing the sun and has no significant shade the snow melts. It then travels down to the edge of the rock and due to the surface tension travels down the edge of the rock until that tension is not enough and it falls into the air, creating the stream into the water. Since the falling water has more energy than the water into which it falls it melted then thin ice sheet in that area and now nfalls into open water creating the ripples you see. ---- Or it's an artistic mistake, a gator fishing mechanism, or a doohicky.

AJ

 

[DeletedUser2959]

According to WebMD, it's cancer.