Field guide No. 279
Hermit crab’s coffee cup shell
Takeaway, taken literally.
On a beach at sunset, a hermit crab wears a white coffee cup as its shell, leaving a trail of ring-shaped marks across the wet sand behind it. Every step leaves a coffee ring.
Field noteHermit crabs move into cans, caps and cups already. The coffee rings are the only flourish.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
The mantis holds timeMantises are roughly watch-sized and fond of gripping things. Rare footage, no fault.
Reserved seatingVelvet and olive wood sit together without argument. Only the booking is unusual.
The hinge gardenMoss grows on old metal left outside. This one has been left outside very well.
The missing guestTables can be built round a gap. Laying for whoever made it is etiquette, not metaphysics.