
This big beauty was trying to cross the street in front of Eastern College Pond today. Normally the traffic is wizzing by at that location, but the turtle stopped traffic in both directions. People were out of their cars, using umbrellas and large sticks trying to get the turtle to move. She was not…

Back in early June while we were still in Tokyo we got an e-mail from our next door neighbor, Sharon Garcia. She told us a great big snapping turtle had walked up our shared driveway, dug a deep hole in her garden and laid about 20 eggs. The whole neighborhood stood around and watched…