Yesterday morning as I was drinking my first cup of coffee, I noticed this critter on the concrete.

He looks big here, but he wasn't much more than an inch long. I think he was keeping the area around my pool clean. I'm glad to have the help. I'm the pool boy, and this is the pool snail.

So I lie down on my stomach (it had rained the night before so it was a little wet) and aimed my camera at the snail. You may be surprised to hear this, as we all have often said "as slow as a snail", but snails move faster than you might think, especially when you are trying to take their picture. So I made certain that the shutter speed I used caught him in "mid-stride". Afterwards, I thought I should have used a slower shutter speed to blur his/her (?) movement. There's always tomorrow. He's on the payroll. He's part of the cleaning crew around here.