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We have a bunch of turtles living in the pond at the main VMware campus. They like to organize themselves into stacks, and were being particularly awesome today.
Jekyll Island has one of the most amazing things ever. They have a facility that resuces injured sea turtles from along the Georgia coast and parts of the Florida coast. Veterinarians nurse the turtles back to health, realeasing those that could survive back into the wild (though often with reconstructed shells and such).
Visiting this place was one of those seminal experiences that just makes you amazed at the compassion and dedication some people have for the creatures of this Earth.
Goal of the first day at UW photo school: Get a nice blue background and light a subject evenly in the foreground. This is going to be a blast!
誕生日おめでとう！ライケンさん。満2歳。
2015年8月15日現在 甲長160mm 体重 688g
（2015年8月15日撮影）
Happy birthday! LICHEN.
He became two years old.
Shell length 160mm weight 688g
(Taken on August 15, 2015)
ROY KILCULLEN PHOTOGRAPHY 25/04/2006
Myrtle the Loggerhead Turtle is released into the Atlantic Ocean from a beach in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria almost two years after getting washed up in the Western Isles of Scotland. Myrtle, who lost a flipper in a shark attack, has been nursed back to health in the UK at the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary in Oban, and later the Scarborough Sea Life & Marine Sanctuary.
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Japanse Watertuin in Naaldwijk. Mooie gelegenheid om foto's te maken bij regenachtig weer.
Trachemys scripta elegans, basking at Zilker Gardens. They are popular as pets, but are now restricted because they can carry Salmonella. Released pets have also become invasive outside their native southern US.
These water turtles have been seen in pet shops for years. The red marking right behind the ear is a very noticable distinction on these turtles. They are commonly seen in lakes, ponds and wetlands. The females are larger and can reach a shell length of 11 inches. I found this one out in a field a few hundred feet from the lake I was near. This turtle was dry and covered in dirt, so I carried it to the lake. This location was in Lawrenceburg, IN.
In an ongoing effort to track bog turtle populations, biologists recently spent several days visiting southern Appalachian bogs in western North Carolina, searching for the rare turtles. Measurements were taken and recorded for each turtle found, then each individual was marked twice – one a physical marking of the turtle’s shell, and then each turtle receives a unique identifying chip, much like you might have placed in your cat or dog. Part of the benefit of chipping the turtles is to identify individual turtles, that are known from specific sites, them should they ever be found in the possession of poachers.
Credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS
Turtle Shell quilt block made using a pattern from the Super Mario Brothers Quilt Along on www.cuttopieces.blogspot.com
This pattern is also featured on www.fandominstitches.com
Fabrics...
Kona Cotton: Black
Bella Solids: Surf
Michael Miller Cotton Couture: Bright White, and Turf
Stabilizer...
Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy
From what I have read on Flickr, many people do not like videos and don't want anything to do with them. Good for you... whatever. I thought it would be neat to share a video of something that I enjoy to watch... a turtle's struggle to get it's big shell up a log without falling off. Sometimes they totter back and worth with their little clawed feet paddling away. It's actually quite comical. The big guy in this video seems to be a pro and didn't have any problem getting up. If you listen to the background sounds, you can hear a banging sound... well that would be the annoying woodpeckers going to town.
Fair warning... the quality isn't very good and please excuse the sound of my camera adjusting. But hey, it's still pretty cool to watch... at least I think.
Another picture from my favourite local walk, there's usually something new to see, this is the first time I've seem a turtle in my patch of the New River.