I thought I would try something different today. If anyone is good at drawing, it definitely needs some more illustrations:

A real turtle that I saw the day after I originally published this post!

Once upon a time, there was a Turtle. He was born on a foggy, rainy day. When he poked his head out of the shell that had been his home for so many weeks, he felt a cool mist breeze over his little turtle body. He looked around at his brothers and sisters who were still in their eggs, and he decided to go exploring – after all, he was hungry!

What he didn’t know was that his mother had built the nest just a few feet away from a steep slope high above a stream. Continue reading →