Field guide No. 375
Monarchs rescue falling leaves
Catching autumn on the way down.
Looking up through a sunlit autumn forest, monarch butterflies carry falling red and yellow maple leaves back up into the sky. It is a lot of leaves for this many butterflies.
Field noteButterflies lift about their own weight. Maple leaves several times larger are ambitious.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Jigsaw salt pan’s missing pieceSalt flats crack into polygons; jigsaw tabs are a coincidence of scale.
Safety in numbersA safety pin is a bent wire and a clasp. Enlarged, it is still just that, in a lake.
Precious courtCourts can be built to any size; players are the limiting factor. These ones fit the ring box.
The coral doorknobReefs can be grown in a jar by the patient. A doorknob is just a jar with ambitions.