Field guide No. 1497
Stone balanced on a flattened soap bubble
Load-bearing iridescence.
A large boulder rests on a soap bubble squashed flat beneath it on wet mud. The bubble is coping.
Field noteSoap film can bear a little weight on a cushion of air. A boulder is asking a great deal of it.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Fallen feather over a sunken poolTiles stretch down into a dark funnel, one white feather drifting near the rim.
Paper moths in the archiveFolded paper flying unaided is aerodynamics’ concern. Moths in drawers are a museum staple.
Black smoke from snowbound mushroomsMushrooms shed spores, quietly. These are giving off heavy black smoke in the snow with no fire anywhere.
Late for the carboniferousA fern fossil lies across a broken slab. Its appointment is several million years late.