Field guide No. 086
Right on time
Every train accounted for.
An open brass pocket watch holds a railway roundhouse where the movement should be, steam engines lined up around the turntable.
Field noteRoundhouses come as models; watches come with cases. Combined, they keep railway time precisely.
Also possible, also breaking scale
The greenhouse’s new occupantA nest the width of a greenhouse needs a bird to match. Undiscovered, not undiscoverable.
Fortune favors the roadPaper can be printed and laid as a ribbon. Tarmac would hold up better.
Harbor stringsGlass violins exist, and so do model harbours. Neither is improved by the tide, but both survive it.
The bell pepper operaPeppers are hollow and already have tiers of a sort. Opera houses are the same shape, with tickets.