06/27/24

 In Gunderson Pond on the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion grounds, there can be found quite a number of turtles.  I captured these 3 on one of the logs.  I am pretty sure that these are Painted Turtles.  They are the most widespread native turtle of North America.

11/30/23

 It's the last day of November, only 25 days until Christmas!  For today's picture, I saw this guy about two and a half weeks ago on a bike ride.  It was sitting across the road from a fairly large pond.  It may have been coming from a pond a little way behind it.  It was nice and bright and fairly large and kind of surprising to see at this time of year.  It's a Painted Turtle.

4/1/22

 Happy Friday!  TGIF!  Happy April 1, hope no one gets fooled today.  😄  Today's image is a turtle that I captured while on a bike ride last summer.  It was in the road and I moved it off to the side in the direction it was headed after I took this pic.  I liked the bubbly bokeh created by the gravel in back of it.  If you follow the Blog you know that Friday's Are Bokehlicious!  I believe it's a Box turtle.

9/16/19

Yet another in the Palindrome Days.  I captured this image in June at Rollag Minnesota.  Kind of forgot about it.  Usually these guys are sitting on the logs in the pond but they seemed to think I was too close so jumped off into the water which I liked for a photo op better anyway.  😀

7/28/18

This is a close up image I was able to get of the Snapping Turtle I saw up at Tamarac Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota this past June.  They have quite the different textures on them and are even more ferocious looking up close.  😊

6/23/18

I captured this fierce looking guy alongside the road in Tamarac Wildelife Refuge.  I am pretty sure it's a Snapping Turtle and I did not want to get too close to it so I shot it with a zoom lens.  😁

5/10/17

I was at the Overland Park Arboretum this past Saturday.  It's a beautiful place to visit and walk around with all the flowers and trees.  There is a large pond there and some turtles were hanging out by the shore.  People were feeding bread to the fish and one turtle seemed to be enjoying it as well.  I think most of them were looking for other food.  I was able to get a good shot of this guy that showed off his colors well.  I believe this is a Western Painted Turtle.