A couple of turtles keeping cool on a hot summer day at Reelfoot Lake State Park.
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~Sam Keen
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A hiding place
One day while I was out walking, I came upon this turtle sitting in the middle of the path. He seemed quite confident that I couldn’t see him hiding there behind that little piece of grass.
“Muster your wits; stand in your own defense, Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.” ~William Shakespeare
Wearing green
Turtle covered in duckweed at Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge
Turtles on a log
“Happiness isn’t complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.” ~Richelle E. Goodrich
Basking in the sun
“The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.” ~Rebecca Harding Davis
Risk-taking
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” ~James B. Conant
Progress
“Never discourage anyone… who makes continual progress, no matter how slow.” ~Plato
Leisure
“A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” ~William Henry Davies
Wonderful
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle – wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” ~Thomas Carlyle
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Turtle posing for a picture at Reelfoot Lake State Park.
walking on a country road 