Do You See a Horse in This Flame?

Canadian reader Maggie McGregor does.

Maggie, an Ontario resident, sent us an interesting photo today with the following explanation:

I took some pictures of my fire place while getting things going this morning and found an interesting photo among them!

Apparently people most commonly see human faces in the flames of a fire or in smoke, and I’ve read this is because the human mind is looking for something with which it is familiar.

I see a horse in these flames — ears, eye,nose and crest. I like horses a lot more than I like most people though, so for me this is probably the most familiar thing to my brain… look! It’s a pony!

I see the horse that Maggie is talking about. Do you?

Go Riding.