Field guide No. 786
Conch siphons sand beneath suspended water
The tide has left a gap.
A conch shell draws a narrow channel through the sand beneath a shelf of seawater held above the beach. The shoreline is between appointments.
Field noteWater can hang above sand in this image; the shoreline’s physics has been put aside.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Rain inside the yellow raincoatA coat can collect rain and let it drain from its sleeves. The shelter is working as intended.
Golden wheat emerging from glacier iceRipe wheat roots into blue ice; harvest and deep freeze never agreed, but both nouns survive.
Stone balanced on a flattened soap bubbleSoap film can bear a little weight on a cushion of air. A boulder is asking a great deal of it.
Dry sand rain over reedsRain is water, which is why marshes like it. Sand only falls out of sandstorms, and never as a downpour.