The Midnight Trapeze: Why Seeing Leopard Slugs in Your Garden Is So Rare

for an audience, and the observer has done nothing to arrange the scene.

The moment is simply given. It arrives without planning and disappears when the dance is complete.

Afterward, the witness can return indoors carrying an image that may be difficult to describe: two shining bodies twisting like ribbons, suspended from a single thread against the continue reading …