Field guide No. 1254
Wheelbarrow with an impossible hollow wheel
The wheel is mostly absence.
A red wheelbarrow stands on a gravel track with its single tyre hollow in the middle, like an open ring, while a grey lake lies behind. It still rolls, in principle.
Field noteOn a bare ring of a wheel rides a red wheelbarrow. With no hub it should fail; nothing in the picture says it does.
Also possible, also breaking material
Loose connectionA padlock whose shackle is knotted like a loosened shoelace; it secures nothing and has stopped pretending.
Prismatic stream across the salt marshStream stands up out of the marsh as a clear block, square-edged and winding.
Still water in a vintage carriageSeats of standing water require water that stands. Physics declines; logic shrugs.
Terrier and its sand twinDogs shake off water. This terrier shook off a second, sandy terrier that shakes too.