Tim and I went walking in our subdivision this morning. We’re trying to walk more, and the last couple of weeks, we’ve been averaging about 10 miles a week. It was really nice and cool this morning, very pleasant. When we turned the corner to our street, we saw a turtle on the sidewalk. Tim said it was a snapping turtle (not that this city girl would know the difference, I think he told me so I wouldn’t go stick my hand near it!), and so, of course, I said, let me go run get my camera. We went home, and I came back with my camera. By that time, he had crawled towards this sewer grate; I guess he was trying to make his get-away before I got back.
So, rather than a bird or squirrel, tada, today I have a turtle picture 
Oh, and our squirrels are coming every day now, usually several times a day, to our corn feeder. We’ve determined that the most frequent visitor is the squirrel we nicknamed “Right Ear”. But, we’ve seen other squirrels on there that aren’t Right Ear, and one afternoon this week, we had a showdown: two squirrels on the fence, headed toward the corn feeder. We had hoped for a fight or a showdown, but alas, one squirrel just ran the other one off and proceeded to eat to his heart’s content.
Click on the extended entry to see a close-up of “Right Ear” and you’ll see why we named him that. He came up on the deck and sat on the deck rail for a long time, watching us watching him from the window!
Right ear on our deck railing:
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