Today is National Snail Day, a festival of which I was until recently unaware, that celebrates these little critters and their sometimes unappreciated role in the ecosystem. Snails have been around for about 500 million years, so they have been managing far better than human beings are currently doing. Maybe we need to cultivate our silvery trails.
Below is an image from a book of children’s stories I recently illustrated (Dancing Stories, by Wendalyn von Meyenfeldt, about which more later).