The days are growing cooler, but when the sun is shining brightly, turtles will still come up from the bottom of the ponds to bask, like this Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) that I spotted last Friday on a log at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge. One of its comrades was lounging nearby with just its head stuck out of the mucky surface of the water.
Neither of these two images is incredible, but I really like the small details that I was able to capture, like the claws on the turtle’s feet in first photo and the bubbles on the water in the second shot. I think that life is often like that—there is amazing beauty in the most mundane, everyday moments if we can manage to look closely enough.
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Haha, Mike, he looks as if he is warming his belly! Happy Thanksgiving!