It was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen living here so far…and no, it wasn’t on a plate ready to eat (though I do think snails are very tasty). Today was a rainy day, and I had gotten soaked from both the rain and sweat. I rode my bike to class, a half-hour-or-more trek, and the wind resistance was heavy. Bikes allow you to have a lot more independence though, because you don’t have to waste time waiting for the bus or tram. Anyway, after I got back to the house and put my bike in the garage, I saw what looked like a lovely stone or a shell on the path in front of me. I picked it up, and it wiggled. It was a little escargot, a snail! This snail had the prettiest shell I’d ever seen. Immediately my day turned into a good one, because I found a treasure of nature right in front of me! I decided to let myself enjoy the simple pleasure that this dull, rainy day had. Lucky for me, it stopped raining for a bit and I put the snail down on some moss in the cracks of the path, close to the grass, and I watched it. As it began to unfurl from within its shell, I captured the image. You can only hear the cars on the residential road next to the house in the videos, but I heard the tiny squish of the snail as it came out from its hiding place and the moisture in the grass as the water made it seem to move and breathe. photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMbN5ISmX__QZ9IhlaBx7O9OSBbWSyKgfJhXr_8
Thanks as always for reading what I have to say! à la prochaine, Elda
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D. H. Garrett
3/4/2019 19:52:12
One writer to another: you really snailed that one!
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AuthorHello! I'm Elda, a French/Anthropology major and Applied Language Studies minor studying in Strasbourg for a semester. Archives
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