The geese, both the adults and the goslings, were strangely absent when I was walking at Lake Jeanette on Sunday. They apparently have gone some place where the grass is watered more often. I have been trying to capture the turtles sunning themselves. They seem to have incredibly sensitive hearing because as soon as I come close, they dive into the water. There are sometimes as many as four turtles on the branch appearing in the picture below. I need to attach a stronger lens to my camera the next time.
When I was a kid growing up in Maryland, I found a box turtle in the field opposite our house and brought it back to our yard, thinking it would remain there as a pet. Unfortunately, when I looked for it the next day, it had escaped. Since we moved so often and gave away our animals as we moved to my father's new naval duty station, I didn't have a pet of my own, and I think of this turtle as my first pet even though our relationship was brief.
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