there are the little things in life

Ein kleines Schneckenhaus hat es sich zwischen den kleinen blauen Frühblühern gemütlich gemacht.

Snail shells are more than just beautiful patterns; they are nature’s own slow-release minerals. Rich in calcium carbonate, they fuel the microbes in our compost and, if left in the soil, serve as vital, ready-made sanctuaries for beneficial insects.

This Earth Day, let's remember that even the smallest shell has a grand role to play in the garden's cycle.

🌎Happy Earth Day🌍

Tonight's supper - escargot

Life is like a spiral of good and bad experiences.

You are never static.

You are either moving up or down the spiral.

The choice of direction is yours.

(P.D.M. Dolce)

Smile on Saturday! :-) - Shells

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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Some snails have used an old brick as a place to rest.

Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag. Digital negative. H2O/H2O2

Looking out across Snailshell Harbor and Lake Michigan from Fayette Historic Park in Garden, Michigan. What remains of the historic dock pokes from the water.

Snail Shell.

Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag. Digital negative. H2O2

Snail shell umbilicus.

Schneckengehäuse / (Snail) Shell

Länge des Gehäuses: 28 mm (Philippinen)

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Found in the field...

Echallens, Switzerland

Well, pretty close and works well as a good tongue twister. Thought it would be fun to try to get a shot of these four, super tiny snail shells before the waves rolled them away.

Today WAH are visiting Shells

Garedn snail shells to be cleaned....eventually.....added to my snail jar.

Cyanotype on Canson Watercolour paper, 300 gr. Digital negative. H2O2

Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag. Digital negative. H2O2

Auswahlfoto

Für "Smile on Saturday"

Thema "Teeny-Tiny" am 04.06.2022.

A "Happy Smile on Saturday" 😊

and a good weekend.

Stay safe / Bleibt gesund.

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Snail perched on a curved blade of grass against a blurred green background.

Sticks And Stones..

A couple of weeks back we packed up and headed for a local park, hiking deep into the woods.

I find that when I am surrounded by the wonderful quietness of the forest, I become acutely aware of the rustling of leaves and twigs as squirrels and other wildlife scurry about their day to day business. .

as we w2alked we could hear the dry ground crunching under our feet, as i looked closer i saw we were walking on tiny snail shells. all of them were discarded and none had any live snails in them. but this one was un scathed as it was burried in the sandy loam that covers the forest floor.

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This tiny snail was about 1/2 the size of my little finger nail.

The big shell is one of my old shells.

Well the little blighter started to come out of the shell and go a-wandering. Have not sighted him since. So somewhere in my kitchen I have a little snail.

Have to post and run for the moment. Just arrived home from a Sunday shift.

Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag. Digital negative. H2O2.

Macro-Mondays-Negative Space

I find these empty shells all over the yard. It's too hot and dry for these little animals to survive long.

Snail shells in file, collected and arranged from my son when he was a child in an age of five or six years. Leica M6, Summicron-M 2,0/50mm, Ilford Delta 100, dev. with ID-11, sol. 1:3, scanned with Nikon Supercoolscan 8000ED.

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... on the Morrocan coast :)

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Happy "Smile on Saturday" with "copy-collages"!

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Macro shot of a snail shell perched on a blade of grass against a clear blue sky in Esztergom, Hungary.

HMM

Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag. Digital negative. H2O2

Spending time in the garden over the past weeks and months, I find myself collecting all manner of things to bring indoors and photograph. As the garden is full of birds and full of snails too ... well there are always snail shells hidden in unexpected corners! Cleaned and sorted ... a few here in a scallop shell!

Shot with the Helios 44-M on the Sony NEX-6

Happy Textural Tuesday ;o)

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