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18AUG2020 – Photo of the Day
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
He’s a grumpy little guy!
Every year the local painted and snapping turtle females trek across the field headed for their egg laying spots. Other than taking their pictures I leave them studiously alone. I hope to get some good basking shots of them this year with my new 200mm-600mm telephoto lens. They’re not very flashy but they’re at least bigger than the bugs I photograph and easier than the very flighty hummingbirds.
There is a pond behind my parents’ house. There are literally hundreds of turtles down there. Most of them are painted and snapping turtles.
All these things, turtles, frogs, toads, salamanders, are like magic to my two-year-old granddaughter when she sees them for the first time in my yard. And because I was born in the city I enjoy her wonder even more.