Field guide No. 1272
Black beams beneath the mushrooms
Mushrooms with good foundations.
Pale toadstools on a fern bank stand on black stems that keep going down through the cut soil like steel posts. They are not going anywhere.
Field noteToadstool stems run on as black steel posts through the cut soil bank.
Also possible, also breaking material
Please untangle the northern lightsAuroras are light a hundred kilometres up. This one came low enough, and solid enough, to snag.
Fern emerging from shaleA fern can press into stone over time. This one saved the time and skipped the soil.
The railway’s impossible knotRail tied in an overhand knot, sleepers attached. Steel will not bend that way, which is a fact about steel only.
Rippling water in trilobite fossilsFossil hollows fill with rain often enough. These held the shapes and the water.