Field guide No. 142
The hourglass bakery
Fresh every hour.
An hourglass on a kitchen table pours flour into a little village of bread houses and croissant roofs.
Field noteAn hourglass with flour runs as well as with sand. The village is a baker’s centrepiece.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Canned serenityBonsai exist, koi exist, tins exist. The arrangement is merely unprecedented.
Follow the threadA big enough spool is just a cable drum with a sewing problem.
Low tide on toastRock pools can be any size, starfish included. Bread is an unusual coast but a firm one.
A measure of distanceRulers can be made long. Long enough for the horizon would need a very patient foundry.