snail housework
A day in the life of Sadie Snail – 11 am:
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snail’s succulents
A day in the life of Sadie Snail – 8 am:
Before tackling her to do list,
Sadie checks on her succulents
and is quite pleased to see that
no weeds have sprung up overnight.
snail’s breakfast
A day in the life of Sadie Snail – 7 am:
Sadie greets the new day
while munching on her breakfast lettuce.
She hopes she can find a few coffee grounds
in the compost to jump start her morning.
ready for takeoff
I’m very proud to announce that I have a graduate in the house!
(My second son has polished off his secondary school education.)
This one’s for all you graduates out there – of all ages and stages:
Brush off your wings and get ready for takeoff!
tiger longwing
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
hummingbird
Not all of us can do great things.
But we can do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa
moonshine
Just to love! She did not ask to be loved.
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence,
alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine…
~ L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
(Summer Snail Fest – Day 8)
and so my snails say goodnight & goodbye – for now.
guardian of the forest
If a tree falls in the forest …
this snail will be sure to hear it.
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Seven)
true love
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.
~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Six)
unsung hero
To be really great in little things,
to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life,
is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
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