Thursday, August 31, 2006

Another walk in the woods

The weather was so pleasant today (though overcast) I decided to take the girls to the Cincinnati Nature Center, which is right around the corner from RAPTOR's new property.

You can buy a handful of fish/turtle food for a quarter...which was a big hit for the girls (and the fish and turtles)What I wasn't expecting was this. Look closely at this photo. Normal-sized, harmless turtles on the top and side...then this massive head, almost the size of the other turtles. A snapping turtle.
Excuse me while I say, "Aiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!".
Some ladies walking by said that was Arnold, as in Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I was rather excited to finally witness a nighthawk in migration tonight. Geoff and I sat and watched 10 or so fly over, in the course of 20 minutes.

My little tree-hugger. I wonder if Lorelei will grow up to be a tree doctor or something. She loves trees...the bark, the leaves, the twigs.

When I saw the moon over the peak of our house, I was reminded of 2001.

9 comments:

Geoff Williams said...

All good photos, but especially that last one is really impressive, honey. It may be a good time, incidentally, to mention that today NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin, to create a spaceship to take astronauts to the moon. (Just to bring some current events to your blog.)

Susan Gets Native said...

Going to the Nature Center today isn't a current event???

Anonymous said...

Awww, cute picture of Lorelei!

Susan Gets Native said...

Thanks...
She does that alot, hug trees.

Shannon said...

Watch out Susan, Lorelei looks like a future tree-huggin, dirt worshiper!!

Anonymous said...

I'm Baaaccck!!

No, you ninnies, not Arnold, it's me: The HAL 9000.

Now, where's Dave?

Lynne at Hasty Brook said...

I hope there were no toes dangling in the water- EEK!!

Michelle said...

So cool. I like turtles - but snapping turtles are nasty things!

Beautiful pics Susan. Morgan is a tree-hugger too :))))

LauraHinNJ said...

I like the tree-hugger pic also.

27 snapping turtle eggs hatched beside the *pond* at work the other day - they were pretty cute. So docile that one would never guess them to be snappers, but their very long tails gave them away.