PHOTOGRAPHY | TRAVEL | SANDI’S JULY PROMPT
Slow Pace But Home Finally
July Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Cute Creatures”
Racing snail wins by a slime!
Around this time last year, I often accompanied my neighbor who is doing her PhD in Botany to the local parks. We’d catch bees for her research. The goal was to get the pollen sac on a specific species. I had a lot of fun wandering the gardens while she did her thing.
On one such trip, I watched a snail make its way across a slab of granite to the grass beyond. The morning sunshine warmed my neck and butterflies were busy having breakfast. There was a large crack in the granite and I wondered how the snail would make it. I watched.
What seemed like hours later, this cute snail approached the crack. I held my breath. Would it slip and fall? No. It simply extended its body like a rubberband. Even as I watched, the elongated snail reached across the chasm and made it to the finish line without breaking a sweat.
My heart was hammering. What a relief it was when the snail made it to its destination! Made me smile, thinking, there’s so much about nature’s critters we don't know. There’s a life lesson there somewhere. Oh, not the slow and steady winning the race, which is…
