Field guide No. 937
Tiny lizard, giant castoff tail
A small lizard, an enormous goodbye
A tiny lizard crosses the vast cast-off tail of a larger reptile on dry ground. The shed skin has kept the better half of the frame.
Field noteA tiny lizard crosses a tail many times its size. The shed skin has kept the better half of the frame.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Feather-filled ribcage motel at midnightA ribcage that size needs an animal no larger than a motel. It just isn’t there.
Basketball through a giant bread sliceBread can be cut and a ball can pass through. The court is handling an unusual hoop.
Tiny hoofprints, distant deerHoofprints the size of fingernails pock a lichened boulder while one full-size deer watches from afar.
Sunflower seatsSeed heads are already arranged in rows. Amphitheatres only needed to notice.