Field guide No. 579
Rain reveals an invisible house
Planning permission, retroactive.
At night on a wet suburban street, rain falling over a brick cottage outlines a second, larger, invisible house around it, the streams running off its roof and walls. Dry evenings it's just the cottage.
Field noteRain lands on what is there. Here it outlines a larger house that nobody can see, round a cottage.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Cobalt waterfire on autumn leavesBlue flame still burns leaves, however unhelpful the rain. Color does not contradict combustion.
Downpour in reverseRain falls into pale columns that sprout in rows from cracked earth. The ground is farming weather.
Peach kitchen rising into the cornerFloors that meet walls in a curve exist in swimming pools. This kitchen took the idea upstairs.
Three carts under private stormsWeather that follows one trolley around is very local, though nothing about it contradicts.