Field guide No. 1555
Dry melt
Thawing into sand.
A clear blue block of ice sits at a snowy roadside. As it melts it pours fine sand instead of water.
Field noteIce thawing into a trickle of grit, the block leaving dry sand where meltwater should run.
Also possible, also breaking material
Off the recordThe groove is peeled into a wavy ribbon trailing off the disc; it still has a tune, just not a flat one.
Zebra with a loose stripeZebra stripe peels free from the flank and hangs like a loose strap, the hide under it plain white.
The ribbon quarryQuarries cut rock into terraces. Cutting satin the same way is waste, but legal waste.
Snowfall from a bitten harvest appleApples are white and crisp inside. This one is packed snow and spills flakes from the bite.