Out and about by the lake taking time to watch turtles basking on logs, all life awash in water & sunlight.
Turtles nest in the hardest places, gravel driveways, railroad tracks, quarry pits, yet they persist, pickmatic claws excavating space for a clutch of eggs.
Turtles are products of their environment, ancient cold-blooded reptiles that behaviorally regulate their body temp, Nature’s built-in barometers.
Warm-bloodedness is a luxury, keeping a constant 98.6 degrees, I’ll bet more people would believe in global warming if they were born into a turtle family.
A turtle is always in the moment, it can’t let its mind wander for fear body temp will suffer, seasons within seasons under one shell.
The ephemeral nature of it all, life begins as an end in itself, we outpace rabbits but will never win the age race with a 200 year old tortoise.
To humans living two centuries is science fiction, but for tortoises it’s second nature.
The ancient eavesdropper 
turtles are indeed intriguing… a wonderful post.. 🙂
Thank you, my friend! I’ve been a tree-hugger, turtle lover my whole life and I’ll probably come back as a Redwood or tortoise in another life 🙂 Hope you are having a relaxing weekend!
Cheers,
Tyler 🙂
turtles are so cool. Cruz was a favorite character in Nemo, and I of course, had the teeny model when I was a kid…poor turtle, in retrospect…
Didja happen to catch the giganter tortie posted on FuhBeebs the other day? It was like huge! On shore–and hopefully okay–it had it’s face dug into the sand pretty good. Is that normal? It looked to be about the width and length of three pushed together 6″ feet humans or so. Just gi-normous.
Tortoises are incredible!
I agree! They are wise, ancient creatures who know more about this earth than we do 🙂
Cheers,
Tyler
Awesome dude 🙂
Thank you, Pieter! I love this video clip from “Finding Nemo”! Very appropriate and awesome. Hope you are doing well, my friend!
Cheers,
Tyler 🙂