Field guide No. 1421
Broken pot with impossible soil shards
The soil broke along the lines
A terracotta pot lies smashed on a blue workbench, and the soil broke with it, each shard still holding a neat wedge of earth. It came apart like a cake with the tin still on.
Field noteLoose soil spills when its pot breaks; this earth snapped clean along the cracks like baked sponge.
Also possible, also breaking material
Cloud completes the chalk cliffChalk falls into the sea and stays gone. Here a cloud has settled into the gap, cliff-shaped.
Lens capped oyster mushroomsGlossy lens-like caps grow on dark wood. The undergrowth is keeping an eye on things.
Bamboo hidden in blue iceGlacier front opens on a stack of green bamboo canes laid in like cordwood.
Knotical milesSmall boats ride waves; this wave is chunky knit. Wool makes poor weather, comfortably.