Field guide No. 626
Black smoke from snowbound mushrooms
Smoking is a strong word.
In a frosty clearing, four pale mushrooms stand in the snow and pour thick black smoke from under their caps. None of them seems to be on fire.
Field noteMushrooms shed spores, quietly. These are giving off heavy black smoke in the snow with no fire anywhere.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sunlight sandwiches on a picnic tableLight doesn’t take wedge form or fit in a bag. The apple, to its credit, is real.
Impossible cubic pearl in oysterPearls grow round because nacre goes on in layers. This oyster layered one with corners.
Sideways gravel on a volcanic plainDark stones streak sideways across the plain in falling rain. Gravity moved to another district.
Midair leaves on a fallen logFresh leaves hang in the gaps of a rotten log with no stems to hold them.