We were picking blackberries when this rainbow appeared.
River and Sky, the dark and pale dogs, are our two newest. They are both Carolina Dogs, a landrace breed.
Gretchen may have been annoyed that the cloud usually above her head had turned into a rainbow.
-jsq
What kind of turtle is this? It’s about 5 inches long, so presumably quite young.
The triple ridges with radiating patterns look to me like an Alligator snapping turtle, Macroclemys temminckii. I don’t see anything else among the 29 turtles of Georgia that is even close.
I don’t know what it was doing out in the open, 500 feet from the nearest water, which is our cypress swamp.
Anyway, it provided yet another opportunity to remind our dogs: no turtles!
-jsq
Strolling the driveway one evening,
a pair of longleaf I did spy
Took their picture, saw them rising,
Candelabra to the sky.
![[River, Sky, Gretchen, Rainbow]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-06-05--river-sky-gretchen-rainbow/20240605_184704.jpg)
![[Lively small turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-10--turtle/big/turtle.jpg)