Field guide No. 960
Borrowed time
A pendulum measures the wall
A brass wall mechanism casts a curved shadow near its pendulum. Time is being collected in installments.
Field noteA brass mechanism casts a curved shadow by its pendulum. Time is collected in installments.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Shell serviceConches have long been held to the ear. Wiring one up is easy; floating it is the hard part.
Aurora spilling from a freight containerShipping containers carry goods, never weather. One has come open and the northern lights are getting out.
Knot tied waterfall in emerald gorgeA waterfall twists into a loop before reaching the river. The current has got itself in a knot.
Pocket eclipse in a hippo's yawnTotality hangs in a yawning mouth. The moon took a lower orbit, and the hippo allowed it.