Find Fractals at Home

Spend one walk looking for fractals. A tree is one — the trunk splits into limbs, each limb branches the same way, each twig branches again. Count three levels of branching on any tree. Broccoli: each floret is a tiny copy of the head. Ferns: each leaflet echoes the whole frond.

Indoors, fractals hide in branching patterns — droplets running down a foggy window, cracks in dry paint, a spreading coffee stain. Pour a little ink onto a paper towel and watch the edge spread: ragged at every scale, a real fractal forming under your hand.