shells within shells, life within death

[LeekClock]

Today I found a tortoise skeleton… Only it wasn’t completely abandoned â€" it had become a living community for other shelled creatures: snails!


 

What I found most striking, structurally, was how fragile the outer shell layer was. I was expecting a sort of hard enamel, a sort of marble solid covering affixed in one large piece â€" but its shell is attached in delicate, individual segments, more like human nail only coloured.



 

See all 5 pictures I took today on FlickR.

[Loki Clock]

A photographinating friend of mine said the snails-in-shell photo was very pretty. I enjoyed it also.

[PowerGloveClock]

very nice