Trail Companion

Day 203: Of all the things I photographed today while walking the South Swofford Wetland Trail, I have chosen this image for my blog. Why? Because a walk on the Wetland Trail is not complete unless you find at least one snail pursuing his own journey.

For Mr. Snail, the traverse of several feet is the equivalent of the mile and a half I will travel from one end of the path to the other. He too will pause to investigate things along his way, if perhaps with a mind to their edibility rather than their beauty. And your narrator, like the solitary snail, will follow a route until it leads somewhere, heedless of time and putting aside the search for a goal for the simple sake of going to some undefined point, then turning in a new direction. A wise companion, Mr. Snail, who knows that the goal of life is to get from one end to the other in one piece.