Field guide No. 219
A brief history of rain
Kept dry for a few million years.
An open black umbrella lies upside down in a sunbaked desert, filled to the brim with fossil ammonites. The forecast, eventually, was stone.
Field noteFossils can be poured into an umbrella by anyone with a shovel. Ammonites and umbrellas, both on record.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Hermit crab’s coffee cup shellHermit crabs move into cans, caps and cups already. The coffee rings are the only flourish.
Reserved seatingVelvet and olive wood sit together without argument. Only the booking is unusual.
The hinge gardenMoss grows on old metal left outside. This one has been left outside very well.
The missing guestTables can be built round a gap. Laying for whoever made it is etiquette, not metaphysics.