╰☆☆June☆☆╮'s photos with the keyword: snails

Fractal creation. Uncovering snails, a poem by Jim McDonald Gardening yesterday I lifted a large log and uncovered a teeming party of life. Woodlice scuttled away An earwig made its hurried passage to safety. I could have been a blackbird, after all. Looking more closely I saw a small snail uncurl itself and begin a ponderous crawl back into the damp safety of the woodpile. My first impulse was to take a stone and smash it a revenge for invading my strawberries. I paused. I climbed down and gazed, huge face to tiny body and saw a thing of unique beauty. The delicate eye stalks curled away from the warmth of my breath and for several moments everything stopped. I lifted it carefully and deposited it in the long grass. It will take weeks to get back to the vegetable patch.