Two-turtle Tuesday

 

The top turtle is easy to recognize as a red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans. Whatever kind of turtle the second one is, it clearly didn’t heed the adage about a rolling stone. I photographed both turtles at Mills Pond in far north Austin on June 2nd.

 

 

 

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Have you heard about the four siblings—ages 13, 9, 4, and 11 months—who survived for 40 days after a plane crash in the Amazon jungle and were finally rescued a few days ago? You can read accounts at CBS and at CNN and at the AP. It’s quite a survival story.

 

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