A long journey

[asakiyume]

What if when you journeyed, the road only appeared after you? I guess that's the case for explorers--they create paths behind them. So, snails and slugs are explorers.

... Also, when you see a slug's silvery path, you expect some amazingly lovely creature must have made it.

"And you'd be right," says a self-confident slug, maybe blushing a little that you should reach such a flattering conclusion.

shining trail


almost across the Great Hard Waste

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

What do slugs make of earthworms, I wonder?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

chthonic deities?

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about those damp days when earthworms go out for constitutionals, and slugs might meet them aboveground. Though I suppose they could seem like emerged chthonic deities then....

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Strangers from strange lands, for sure.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Even the snail
Leaves a stardust trail

:o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful--thank you for sharing that!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember where I got it from, as I have to admit that it isn't mine.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Sea slugs are very beautiful creatures.

For that matter, I wonder what land slugs make of them.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Sea slugs must be like mermaids or fairies for land slugs.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Onward

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

just a little farther to the soft, damp green.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being a traveling companion.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It takes two--thanks for coming along <3

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That's a nifty concept, the road after.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting if we left a trail of all the places we'd been to, and people could follow it back into our (geographical) pasts.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes!

[pinkroo.livejournal.com]

this made me smile :) thanks!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! Your icon made *me* smile.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

One goes this way, another goes some other way; all wanting to get somewhere else, every day, all life long. Just like us. Slugs and humans.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Moving. Going. Yup, us and the slugs--not any different, in that respect.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Hurry, slug, hurry! It's dangerous out there! (Which I guess makes them even more venturesome explorers.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

These guys are the Edmund Hillarys of the slug world, maybe. (hmmm, so who are the Tenzing Norgays, I wonder)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

The snails are the ones actually carrying something on their backs!

(But that - shame! - is just a smartypants reply; of course Tenzing Norgay was a member of the expedition, not a porter.)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

One of our neighbours told us a story of how, when she was a little girl, someone (her parents) told her the fairies had left her a present in the garden, at the end of a silver thread. She followed the thread in great excitement, but you can guess what she found at the end...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

If the parents had been *really* cruel, they would have told her that good children see a fairy and bad children see a slug. As it is, maybe they were just trying to get her excited about slugs? Maybe not the best method :-P

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Even here in the desert, it's sometimes possible to find a snail or a slug after a heavy rainfall. But, I see them only rarely.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'd never particularly noticed them before, though I'm sure I've seen them.