Field guide No. 792
Fern emerging from shale
Pressed between two eras.
A dark fern shape spreads across a split slab of grey shale. The leaf has kept its appointment with the stone.
Field noteA fern can press into stone over time. This one saved the time and skipped the soil.
Also possible, also breaking material
Zebra with a loose stripeZebra stripe peels free from the flank and hangs like a loose strap, the hide under it plain white.
Frozen splash across black basaltLava does set in ripples now and then. Rings round a dropped pebble is a neat coincidence.
Paper plane, folding brick wallBrick creases like paper here, and paper hits like brick. They swapped jobs on impact.
Salt keeps scorePawprints in the salt crust are filled with starry black. Whatever walked here took night with it.