Mobile, Alabama: A Walk in the Afternoon: A Snail

 

Snail. Mobile, Alabama. May 2022. Credit: Mzuriana.

 On an afternoon walk, I saw a snail. 

 It is always a glad thing when I see a snail, and a snail shell, and the snail is in the shell. 

 So many times, you see a houseless snail, and it just looks like a slug. 

Or you see the shell, but it is empty. 

This afternoon's snail looked up at me for a moment. 

Snail saying hello, maybe. Mobile, Alabama. May 2022. Credit: Mzuriana.

I filmed the snail's walk across the sidewalk. It is very peaceful watching the snail do this. 

 

It evokes the same peace as watching jellyfish float down and up and down and up. 

Interestingly, I enjoy a similar calm when watching Girl With the Dogs, a dog groomer's channel. I'm guessing it is an ASMR thing. 

Related posts

2020: Alabama: Slow Talkers? 

2011: Caucasus Georgia: Snails, Part 2

2011: Caucasus Georgia: Snails, Part 1 (including "Georgian snails sent to space")

The snail departed. 

Snail. Mobile, Alabama. May 2022. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

 

 

Louisiana: "Holy Week Crawfish Supply Should Satisfy Demand"

Crawfish Etouffee, Crawfish Etouffee Cook-Off, Eunice, Louisiana

Here's a newspaper headline you don't see in most parts: Holy Week Crawfish Supply Should Satisfy Demand

Excerpted from The Daily Advertiser: LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Louisiana crawfishermen and the merchants who sell the crustacean to retail customers say the supply should be enough to satisfy appetites during Holy Week and Easter weekend.

It's a welcome turn to a season marred by a harsh winter that stunted crawfish growth, limited the catch and made profit forecasts bleak.

In the days leading into Holy Week, prices for a pound of live crawfish ran from $2 at Db Seafood in Morgan City to $2.49 at Tony's Seafood Market and Deli in Baton Rouge.

The price was somewhere in between at D&T Seafood in Abbeville, where live, small-sized crawfish sold for $1.50 a pound and the mediums went for $2.25.

"We're going to have a decent supply" for Easter week, said D&T owner Don Benoit. ..... 

This reminds me of some other Lenten food stories. 


Snails

Georgia: Snails (Part 1)
Georgia: Snails (Part 2)

Snail, Gori, Caucasus Georgia

Capybara

On my first trip to Alamogordo, while on a road trip with my mother, we learned about capybara and Lent.

Capybara, Alamogordo Zoo, New Mexico