a snail crossed my path

[fflo]

The snail picture in this entry's user pic, in fact.

It was on a concrete step, of all places.  As I came back into the office.

Did it fall there?
Did it crawl there?

Snails say what?  "Slow is okay"?  "Good thing I have this shell"?  Both?

Comments

[custardfairy.livejournal.com]

Snails say "Fibonacci!"

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I just had to look up a reference in the Fibonacci Quarterly today, the hard way, cuz it was a solution to a problem, and we don't index those. The problem involved continued fractions, and was called* "Just Continue." Fibonacci and the snail connect on all kindsa levels. :)

* I included the name of the problem in the reference, even though it technically isn't called for, cuz I liked it. Somebody else can take it out later if she wants, and has no joy nor whimsy.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I guess it's too late to put my Fibonacci song in as a comment now.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I would say it was probably dropped by a predator. Ours usually are smushed by the time they hit the pavement.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dropped by a predator! Now I really feel for it.

I wonder if it liked its new location in the dirt. If it's not dead, and wasn't already.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It would probably be a snail's version of time travel.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Tesseract!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Certainly could be in his little world.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

I like to think snails say, "What's up, motherfuckers," but they do it realllllly slowly.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yer crackin me up. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Hello lovely snail!

Thank you, lovely blogger!

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

It has a pretty shell :)

I would like to think that a snail says "I like this spot. I'm going to chill here a bit." Or "Time to leave. I got a long trip ahead of me."

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSN-kqAmxw