Field guide No. 779
Banana wearing a steel hex nut
Hardware, with potassium.
A yellow banana is cinched around its middle by a large steel hex nut on a blue workbench. It is holding together better than expected.
Field noteBanana flesh can bend around a nut. The workbench needs a less ambitious snack.
Also possible, also breaking material
Figure eight bicycle against vermilion wallA frame bent into a figure eight is a poor bicycle, not a logical impossibility.
The softest stoneA boulder folded like a cushion under one feather. Stone is not soft, but soft stone is not a contradiction.
Rippling water in trilobite fossilsFossil hollows fill with rain often enough. These held the shapes and the water.
Fermented files in green cabinetsPaper is pulp, flat and finished. These files have gone yeasty and risen out of the drawers.