Field guide No. 1431
Daylight inside night blooming desert flowers
Saved some sun for later
On a dark desert hillside at night, pale flowers glow warm and gold from inside, each like a small lamp. They kept the afternoon in their petals.
Field noteNight-blooming petals open to the moon, and these give back the daytime they missed.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sunflowers with sideways floating centersSeed heads drift out of their sunflowers’ petal rings and hang beside them, every one slipped the same way.
Ammonite awakening on shaleFossils are what’s left after the animal has gone. This one came back for its body.
Knotted ridge in the desertSandstone arches are carved by wind. Wind has not been known to tie one in a knot and leave it.
The stratum takes flightDark birds rise from a striped canyon wall. The strata released their contents.