Field guide No. 1017
Octopus camouflage creeps across rocky seabed
An octopus nearly disappears
A mottled octopus blends into a rocky seabed beside patches of kelp. It has filed its camouflage as a permanent address.
Field noteAn octopus blends into rock beside kelp. Its camouflage has become a permanent address.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Blue flames at every branchBranch tips each burn a small blue flame, like a candelabrum left on a plain.
The colour goes homePigment that runs uphill into its tin offends gravity and drying times. Logic is unbothered.
Three summer meadows frozen in iceGlaciers grind meadows away. This one has kept strips of summer grass in flower between its bands.
Fog snagFog catches on a stone wall and fence. The weather has been snagged on the boundary.