Field guide No. 1344
Prismatic stream across the salt marsh
Water, but squared off
A stream winds across a grey salt marsh as a clear, square-edged block standing proud of the mud. It has kept its shape after leaving its bed.
Field noteStream stands up out of the marsh as a clear block, square-edged and winding.
Also possible, also breaking material
Slate wave on a silent shoreA wave of layered slate is frozen at its crest. It has been about to break for some time.
A honey filled running laneHoney pours and sets in any trough; a running track’s kerb is just a long enough mould.
Ironing crumpled aluminumFoil can be smoothed, not turned into a mirror-thick plate. The iron added metal somewhere.
Paper thin egg beside its twinEggshell flattened without a crack has stopped behaving like eggshell. The twin is a proper egg about it.