doodledee

Every morning on my way in from the back parking lot, I walk over this bridge that crosses a little pond of water. Sometime early last week I noticed that there was this one turtle sunning himself on the bank on the pond when I walked past. "Neat," I thought, "a turtle getting a tan."

After a few days, a bunch of the turtle's buddies started showed up and tanning with him. One morning there must have been like 15 turtles lined up on the shore. "Wow!" I thought, "That's a lot of frickin' turtles!"

So I brought in my camera and took a picture. Unfortunately, today was a little overcast - read: not good turtle tanning weather - so there were only maybe 8 turtles hanging around. Plus, once you lean over the side of the bridge, some of the more modest turtles see that you're trying to take their picture and scamper back into the water. They do this much faster than you would think a turtle would be capable of scampering. Oh well, it's still neat.