Field guide No. 1400
Unfinished business
Boulders, mid-hatch
On a black-sand beach every round stone sits in two halves, the top lifted slightly off the bottom like a lid. Something inside is taking its time.
Field notePebbles on the black beach each hover a lid’s width above their lower halves, split and never finished.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Apple shadow devours the wooden tableApple shadows can only darken a surface. This one seems to have taken the boards with it; physics, not logic.
Crosswind over the desert plainA rolled tube of dust lies sideways above a stony plain. The wind found a shape and stuck with it.
Moss arch with upward rootsMoss carpets lift off logs all the time. This one kept going and took its roots along.
The stag beneath a lightning treeLightning picks the quickest path down. Following a stag’s antlers is a stylistic choice.