Rainbow Golden Ratio ...

Rainbow Golden Ratio - Alice Smith

I think the Golden Mean relates to my close friend and extraordinary artist Alice Smith when looking at her Rainbow Golden Ratio piece depicting the GM logarithmic spiral in an ever-expanding and moving cascade of leaves showing how existence works in a deep way as the only constant, in reality, is change, something the Taosts have talked about with subtle eloquence for over 5000 years. 

A Fibonacci spiral (top), which approximates the golden spiral, using Fibonacci sequence square sizes up to 21. A golden spiral is also generated (bottom) from stacking squares whose lengths of sides are numbers belonging to the sequence of Lucas numbers, here up to 76.

1618033, the golden mean, is everywhere as nature seems to like how this ratio works in the real world. :)

A seashell is one of the most well-known examples of the golden ratio spiral in nature.
(Photo: Tramont_ana/Shutterstock)

Despite their tumultuous nature, ocean waves are another example of the golden ratio manifesting in nature. (Photo: irabel8/Shutterstock)

And my favorite ... :)

A chameleon tail is famous for its tight spiraling shape. (Photo: Ryan M. Bolton/Shutterstock)

And of course, the sunflower. :)

The golden ratio of growth seen in a sunflower head. (Photo: Portogas D Ace/Shutterstock)

Thanks Alice for cluing me in, yet again, about the wonders of nature. :)