Field guide No. 566
Lavender feathers in salt cracks
The salt flat moults.
A cracked white salt flat under bare mountains has soft lavender feathers growing up through every crack, in rows like weeds in paving. Something enormous is under there, and it is fluffy.
Field noteFeathers grow on birds. These sprout in rows from the cracks of a salt flat, like weeds.
Also possible, also breaking category
Chrome cart, amber huskMoulting is for insects; carts are made, not grown. A category slip with wheels.
Parking meter swallows the roadParking meters take coins. This one is feeding the road itself into its slot.
Beaked coins in a drawerBronze and silver coins are stamped with a raised bird beak. Legal tender, in that it can peck.
Stone laughter across cracked saltMouths with tiny stone teeth gape from every salt crust plate, a whole plain caught mid-laugh.