This was the weekend the roses bloomed. I have white Rosa rugosa, the little wild roses with five petals and fruit that keeps the yard full of birds all winter. Several houses along the way to the computer have highly bred multi-petal roses--so far, all red.
In the road, literally in the road, right in a wheel track, I met a terrapin or Box Turtle. This local animal is not endangered, but is chronically threatened by its tendency to lumber slowly across roads used by motor vehicles. The one I saw in real life had the same general color pattern as the one shown here...
http://www.naturalheritage.com/citizen-science/past_projects/box_turtle/turtlebasics.aspx
...only more vivid. A shower of rain had brightened up the brown and yellow shell, and the orange-red eyes almost glowed. (Thanks to the link above, I now know that this means it was male.)
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