Turtle Walk – Photography
While walking tucker this morning I noticed what I thought was a leaf moving under one of my steps. While I don’t know how many sick people might have already noted that there was no breeze and that a leaf couldn’t have moved. But I am wired that way. I took a step back and picked up the “leaf”. It was a baby snapping turtle about 2 inches long in the middle of the street tucked into his shell. Not uncommon in florida but this little guy was about 4 blocks from the nearest body of water. My only deductions are: A) He was kidnapped from one of the lakes and smuggled in a young adolescents pocket one of the near by homes and released shortly before dinner. B) He was nabbed by a bird lakeside and while being carried back to supper at the nest he struggled and managed to break free from the death grip of a crane or snake bird. or C) Well actually I don’t have C.
Please feel free to post C in the comments of this post. Winner gets a free portrait session. Please enter only once.
Any who. What happened to Tommy the Turtle? I took him to a near by lake and released him safely into the wild. Good luck my little buddy. Atleast you didnt get run over by a car or large SUV.
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He is actually not a turtle, he is a new species that evolved in the year 2210, in 2210 global warming finally took its toll which forced the powers that be to create this new form of life to help preserve the earths future.
So the answer is “He was transported there by a time machine”
C) Tommy the Turtle was in the middle of racing the rabbit and he got a little sidetracked. Great pics! What a cutie.
as tommy was preparing for his nightly karaoke gig at the sioux city bar & grill, he received a call from his uncle lou, a leatherback whose penchant for car travel has taken him far and wide in this great country of ours. lou asked tommy to join him on a convoy that was leaving later that night. tommy didn’t have sh*t to do, so he said yes. he was picked up at midnight by a semi-truck driven by a surly, overweight woman. after driving 4,000 miles, tommy noticed the woman had harsh curly hair and she didn’t talk much. at the next rest stop on the florida turnpike, he asked lou about the woman. lou said her name was marge. tommy, being a movie buff, instantly recognized the woman from a motion picture titled, “pee wee’s big adventure.” that’s all he had to know. tommy hitched a ride on the bumper of a rusty van driven by immigrants on their way to a landscaping gig. tommy survived the first few hard brakes, but upon the third he fell over. being a guy with lots of moxie, he decided he’d just walk to sioux city. so he began. then some curious dog-walker with too much nervous energy spotted him in the center of the road (tommy figured he’d go in the center, so as to not get run over). alas, the dog-walker set tommy back quite a few steps. and now he’s wet and pissed. and will never agree to join a convoy again. lou? he hasn’t been heard of since.
In the beginning there were aliens, aliens hungry for knowledge of what makes those things called humans tick. The aliens made their descent upon Earth and stole a small child named Cartman. However, they didn’t learn much from him at all, and actually left a probe in a place where the sun don’t shine. After dropping Cartman back at home, they decided they need to further investigate this whole Planet Earth gig. That’s when they snatched a blonde pop princess named Britney. They fed her cigarettes, Cheetos and some other odd foods and stole her shoes. Then they shaved her head. Learning very little from her, they sent her packing as well. On the third trip to Planet Earth, they encountered a wee little morsel named Tommy. Tommy was efficient. He found his own food and he even had his own mobile home, also known as a shell. They like Tommy he was quiet and asked for very little. After studying Tommy for sometime, they felt that they had a brand new perspective on Planet Earth. Too bad on the way back down, their spaceship had a head-on collision with an ugly duckling. Realizing they wouldn’t be able to make it back home if they didn’t leave at that very moment, they had no other choice but to drop Tommy off where they were. They left him right in front of some dude Droze’s house. He seemed like a stand-up guy who would return Tommy and give his sister free pics for explaining what had happened to poor Tommy.
He took a wrong turn at Albuquerque?
What you have witnessed was a turtle on the brink… His story begins when he was adopted by a cruel kid who was to use him in a snapping turtle fighting ring. At first he won some matches but then he had to fight his mentor “snapoda”. He was unable to perform… so he was flushed. He surfaced in a hellish pond in Plantation FL where he began riding jon boat wakes and indulgin on only the most sticky-icky green algae. After a particularlly rough evening he awoke under Droze’s steps… his young life had truly hit rock bottom. THE END
His name is Basquiat, the little known fifth TMNT and he escaped from the sewers below through the nearest manhole after he was shrunken down by one of Shredder’s evil shrink rays. Please get him back to Splinter immediately for his safety…and yours.
Heroes in a half shell; Turtle Power!