Fire Ant Crater

These fire ants (likely Solenopsis invicta) decided to build their home right along a crack in our cement driveway. It's amazing that they know how to make the mound almost completely circular, and that the crack dissects the mound right down the middle, like the diameter of a circle in geometry. Early in the afternoon, they were busy going to and fro, running down into the hole and up the slope again, but later their activity had diminished. The shadows in the second set of shots give the mound a deeper, golden hue. It's absolutely beautiful! Not only the symmetry, the geometry, clearly evidence of God's hand, but also the fact that this mound must seem a mountainous crater to the ants, and the crack a vertiginous chasm. Imagine how the ants made the mound by finding and carrying each individual granule and placing it just so, around a central point, creating a circular design.

Early Afternoon:

Late Afternoon: