It has been nearly an eternity since I last posted. Man. Oh well. No way I’m going to be able to catch up and fill in all that’s happened since the last time…    At least not in one post anyway. 

So, the one with Laura was taken several months back (notice the warm looking puffy coat) with a young lad of a turtle we endearingly named Yoda. More recently (notice I have a t-shirt on), in Colleyville we spotted a much larger turtle on the side of the road and stopped to make sure it didn’t need any help. While we didn’t name this one, I did extract a harmful leech(picture not included – don’t want to scare the younger audience) from the hind portion of its shell, and returned it to a safe spot at a nearby stream. Earlier this morning, I was riding my bike to Cameron Park, and nearly ran over what I think was yet another box turtle. This guy (or girl…i’m not sure) was in the process of making his way through the Vietnam memorial garden that is near the suspension bridges that people like to toss tortillas off of sometimes… My initial knee-jerk reaction was to pick it up and take it with me somehow ( i had my backpack on afterall), and bring it to a safe place in the park where we could read together and it wouldn’t accidentally wander into the road where it could very easily be crushed by the a passing motorist or expert cyclist like myself. After a second though, I decided I should let it continue on in its tour of the memorial and trust it to make wise traveling decisions.

Anyway. It has been a season of turtles and a plethora of other things, but this is all I want to write for now.