On the Move

"Stop!" Isaac blurted on the drive home from track practice tonight. "There's a turtle on the road.

I pulled over to the roadside, so my turtle-fan son could get out for a look. I too grabbed my camera and slowly moved in on the reptile.

"It's a painted turtle," Isaac said. "Look at it's shell."

He held up the critter

to show me the tell-tale

orange underbelly

painted with

tan-and-brown

designs.



Isaac put the critter down.

Then we had a look at the top and noticed this turtle's toughness.

Somewhere during its life, this turtle suffered injury when the side of its shell was crunched.

Scar tissue now sealed the cracks.



Isaac

stroked

the turtle's

shell as I

snapped

a portrait.


And then, we were all off – On the Move – during this Spring evening.