Field guide No. 971
Circular rowboat on dark water
A boat returns to itself
A circular wooden rowboat floats on still water among foggy, forested hills. Its passengers can row without choosing a direction.
Field noteA circular rowboat floats on still water. Its passengers can row without choosing a direction.
Also possible, also breaking category
Open seasonDark curved blades are pinned among the apples, as the orchard’s own notice to pickers.
Stranded jellyfish filled with autumn leavesJellyfish swallow what drifts in. This one met a lot of leaves on the way to shore.
Emerald frog’s concentric dew chorusCalls are sound; dew is water. A croak arriving as droplets swaps one for the other.
Silver crescent in a bruised skyClouds that colour like a bruise round a crescent. Skies only look hurt; this one took it literally.