on holiday: do my eyes deceive me?

i think i'm doing a good job of not doing any mathematics, during my holiday.  on the other hand, i think my mind's gone to wandering and i'm starting to overanalyse things and see things that aren't there.

for example, in brugge:

when i saw these tiles floating on the lawn, i immediately thought of whitney cube decompositions .. even though the cubes were not shrinking in diameter, as they approached the boundary ..

also:

these look like the best kind of embedding to me .. that of apples being embedded into crepes!

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