Field guide No. 1573
High water mark
Ripples that set overnight
Around a storm drain in a car park, the tarmac has risen in concentric rings like the ripples from a dropped stone. Someone will need to resurface the splash.
Field noteAsphalt sets flat, but around this drain it froze in rings like a dropped pebble.
Also possible, also breaking material
The sea has pocketsWater stitched like denim breaks the fabric rules, not the logical ones. The key is perfectly ordinary.
Where rainbows become rockRainbows end nowhere you can reach. This one carries on into a quarry face as coloured stone.
Quiet seal, glass whiskersGlass tubes stand in for whiskers, spilled on the slipway. Asleep, the seal is unbothered.
Crumpled granite on barren screeGranite fractures and never folds, but this boulder is creased like a letter someone balled up.