Field guide No. 778
Autumn leaf magnet
The season has found a centre.
A boulder in an autumn wood is covered in a dense coat of fallen leaves. The trees are losing the argument.
Field noteA boulder can collect leaves without breaking a rule. The magnetism is only in the title.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Bat suspended in sunlightBats hang from rock. This one hangs from a sunbeam, which takes its weight like a beam ought to.
Last year's rainA tree appears upside down in rooftop puddles. Last year’s weather remains on the surface.
Crumb tideLoaf’s torn end throws crumbs across the table like spray off a breakwater.
The last matchSmoke setting solid is chemistry misbehaving. A cube of anything is still a perfectly sound cube.