Flashing the Colours


 
 

I bought a swamp and this is one of my new tenants, a colourful Eastern Painted Turtle. When the heat of the Springtime morning sun burns through the mist, these guys pile up onto a small mound next to our RV and soak it up. Often this coincides with morning coffee and a mutual staring session between tenant and landlord ensues.

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