Field guide No. 427

The surface of a leaf-strewn woodland pond stands up in hundreds of sharp little peaks, like stiff plastic film. It is cold, or it is nervous.

Angular shiver across a woodland pond

Water with goosebumps.

The surface of a leaf-strewn woodland pond stands up in hundreds of sharp little peaks, like stiff plastic film. It is cold, or it is nervous.

Field noteRipples are round because water is. These come to points and stay there.

Specimen
No. 427
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A shallow woodland pond in autumn.
Nearest existing relative
A pond, ruffled.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics