Field guide No. 991
Footprints becoming tiny tortoises
A trail continues on four legs
A tortoise crosses a dusty path while smaller tortoises follow behind. The footprints have started their own expedition.
Field noteSmall tortoises follow a tortoise across dust. The footprints began an expedition.
Also possible, also breaking category
Ants stitch a cracked boulderAnts do carry and build. Sewing granite shut with grass is a tailor’s job at a quarry’s scale.
Dandelion through the bucketA dandelion grows through a rusted bucket. The flower has taken over the lease.
Torn leaf, emerging butterfliesA torn leaf edge turns into butterflies of its own colour. Moths do mimic leaves; none are born from one.
Field notesTerraces are carved hillsides; pages are carved trees. Read generously, it is a sculpture of a farm.