Field guide No. 1380
Tennis ball through a living fence
Out of bounds, then overgrown
A red-clay tennis ball is wedged in a chain-link fence, and green vines grow out of it, threading through the wire. The ball has been here long enough to take root.
Field noteVines sprout from a worn tennis ball caught in the chain-link and climb the wire as if it were a seed.
Also possible, also breaking category
Sailing bed across the salt flatsBeds stay where they are put. This brass one has sails and runners and is under way.
Beaks on the pebblesGulls stand about among loose orange beaks on a beach. Everyone appears fine about it.
Tender gravelEggshell halves sit in hundreds of small dimples across red earth, as if the gravel itself had hatched.
Clamshell cornflakes at breakfastClams in milk instead of flakes: wrong breakfast, perfectly possible clams.