This one, on the side of the house, was rather small. There are tell-tale signs that it has made a U-turn and is dashing towards the rose before the sun comes out properly.
And, in response to Conrad Roth’s comment, here just for the hell of it is the snail upside down, in striptease format:
A Bad Guide 
Sigh. We toured through France and Belgium for a couple of weeks and I didn’t get to eat a single snail. (This is what you get for travelling with a toddler too boisterous for restaurants.)
I did have andouillettes, though, and they were actually quite nice.
Wow. What a shot! You’re two for two on snails, Crown! Really, that’s lovely.
That last comment was me. Jim. Though I’m sure Robin agrees.
If you set the toddler loose in the garden he’ll soon find you something to eat. Ours used to invite a pair of twins over to eat ants (lemon flavour).
I’m glad you like my snail pictures. Conrad was impressed by my slug one (and I by his). I liked this picture with the rose shadows even while I was taking it, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on why.
Like all of yours, very nice; though I think it would be better upside down—since I can’t see the whole image on my screen at once, this would make the snail the punchline of a striptease. I wish I had a better camera myself, though it would certainly help to have a reliable sunlight in this country.
You’re right, upside down is better.
It’s not really my camera. It’s my wife’s; she uses it for her work. On the principle of never being satisfied, I want a macro lens.
I like how Conrad thought to take into the account how the photo will actually appear on the screen. We need more of that.
Richard Lanham, a master prose analyst whom Slawkenbergius made me aware of, writes a lot about the ways in which computer text will be able to avoid the constraints print imposes on language. You could be on the cutting edge of this, Crown.
The second photo is a snail from the Land Down Under. You can tell because of the position of the sun under the earth. This is how shadows actually appear south of the equator.
hee, hee
I wonder how Noetica is doing in his search for venomous spiders for us to admire.
Cutting edge? I’ll check out this Richard Lanham. I haven’t been cutting edge for ages.