Field guide No. 178

A lone tree on a plain is in blossom on one side, green in the middle and orange with autumn on the other, with a dusting of snow at its foot.

All the hours at once

Every season, same tree.

A lone tree on a plain is in blossom on one side, green in the middle and orange with autumn on the other, with a dusting of snow at its foot.

Field noteTrees can bloom and turn unevenly; snow can come early. All of it on one tree is merely bad timing.

Specimen
No. 178
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A lone tree on a plain, any month.
Nearest existing relative
A tree.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics