Monday, May 17, 2010

Un tout petit escargot

I took my camera on Sunday's morning walk with Callie once again. As I was leaning down to take a picture of some fraises des bois (wild strawberries), I noticed this tiny snail on a leaf. It's so small that I assume it's a youngster. And there seem to be little hairs on its shell. I've never seen anything like that before.

This snail is not more than a few millimeters in diameter. Tiny!

I had to take about five photos of it to get this good one.
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6 comments:

  1. Jean17 May, 2010 09:23

    Walt, it looks very cute. It will be eating your vegetables and looking a lot bigger and much less cute before you know it !!!

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  2. tornwordo17 May, 2010 14:40

    Hairy snail sounds like some kind of euphemism, lol

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  3. Starman17 May, 2010 21:32

    Interesting. I've never seen a snail with hair. I wonder if he/she uses a dandruff shampoo?

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  4. BlogMarkBlog18 May, 2010 03:58

    Some people just prefer a more hairy snail I guess.

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  5. Ur-spo18 May, 2010 06:27

    such beauty in something so simple.

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  6. wcs18 May, 2010 08:19

    jean, well this one won't be eating our veggies... it was way out in the vineyard. By the time it crawls all the way to our house, well, it might be the next century.

    tornwordo, hmmmmm....

    starman, something with rain water in it, probably.

    mark, I don't think I'll go there...

    michael, sometimes the littlest things are amazing.

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