Field guide No. 821
The bowling alley’s wooden wave
The lane has taken a turn.
A polished bowling lane rises into a high wooden wave, carrying pins along its curling edge. The ball has been asked to wait.
Field noteA wooden lane can bend into a wave if the carpenters work long enough. The pins will manage.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Vertical sand tideDry sand slumps at about thirty degrees, so a sheer dune face needs gravity pointing somewhere else.
Mud wave crashes through chainlink fenceMud slumps, it doesn’t break like surf. This one curls into a perfect wave, inland, on a hard court.
Snow dissolving into rose petalsSnow can be replaced by petals in the air. Winter has not signed the handover.
Inverted crow nest with hanging eggsThe eggs rest on the underside of the bowl, having misread the brief but not contradicted it.