Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Could You Catch A Turtle?


It's always a blast to share kayaking with someone else...
Especially someone super-cool like my nephew Derek

 Ah youth..
'I see turtles....'

...easy...just a little bit closer....

Gotcha


Turtle looking resigned to his fate...but in real life he was anything but...he squirmed and clawed and finally hissed. Yes, that's right, he was really hissed off. 



Following those traumatic moments of being held by a human hand, the turtle was released to the familiar watery playground of his existence, and Derek to his land-based one.
...Summer...and the livin' is ea-e-zy...

NOTE: While on the river my nephew commented, "I didn't know lilypads had stems." 
He'd probably only seen pictures of them or seen them from a distance.  They do look like they're just floating on the surface, unattached. A closer look reveals attachment. There's something to be said for a slow pace at times. 

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