Snail weather

This weather is snail weather, and its pace from day to day is snail slow. My garden is snail fodder, despite how the rain makes it grow. Why must snails have such pretty shells? Is that spiral a bulls-eye to send them to hell? I may pluck them and fling them and drug them with […]

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A Rose as Nursery

The heat let up just enough for me to cut down a rogue copy of my wild rose bush. After getting my hand stabbed and picking out bits of thorn from my fingers, I’m leaning toward thinking it’s a Prickly Rose.  While I was cutting it down and hacking it up, I found all sorts […]

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