Field guide No. 438
Cobalt balloon embraces a cactus
Holding on, carefully.
A big cobalt-blue balloon has wrapped itself round a desert cactus, spines pressing into it, and hasn’t popped. It is either very brave or very thick.
Field noteBalloons meet spines exactly once. This one is squeezing in for a hug, unpopped.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Going upLifts exist and so do clouds. Getting one to wait inside the other is weather’s business.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.
Tiny flame, enormous gustA flame that blows a gale gets energy from nowhere. A physics outrage, a logical shrug.
Cumulus impact in the meadowClouds are mostly air and drift. This one landed hard enough to dig a crater.