Althouse: Meade likes turtles.

May 9, 2014

Meade likes turtles.

More turtle pics, from today's journey to Meade's ~~dog~~ turtle park, here.

14 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: On the off chance that it's illegal to pick up a turtle, be it known that is not Meade's hand.; 5/9/14, 2:13 PM
JD said...: Whoa, someone needs some cuticle work done and I don't mean the turtle.; 5/9/14, 2:25 PM
jbell said...: Is the turtle Meade-like or does Meade like turtles?; 5/9/14, 2:29 PM
Michael K said...: Turtles carry salmonella so wash afterward.

I had a turtle just like that one when I was about 8 or 9. I lost it in the house and in the spring, months later, my mother found it behind my dresser. It was all dry and shriveled. She put it in a bowl of water and it seemed to swell up, then it stuck out its head and walked away.

Hibernation, I guess.; 5/9/14, 2:41 PM
rehajm said...: Alternate title- "Turtles are kinda pissed at Meade."; 5/9/14, 2:52 PM
averagejoe said...: Look at the resolution on that camera! You can see each individual scale and whorl. I bet it was taken with a phone camera too. The clarity of the photographic images taken by telephones these days is miraculous. I took a pic of the old Hollywood Citizen-News building from the sidewalk in front of it. I could zoom in to see paint chips on the fourth floor window sills.; 5/9/14, 3:05 PM
rhhardin said...: That's a Woolworth turtle.; 5/9/14, 3:30 PM
LuAnn Zieman said...: While driving on a country road this morning, I stopped to encourage a medium-sized turtle across the road. Amazingly, as I walked behind it, it speeded up. I've never seen a turtle move so fast.; 5/9/14, 4:14 PM
Tyrone Slothrop said...: We bought a two-inch red-eared slider for my son when he was six, at the height of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze. Son is now twenty-five and living twelve hundred miles away, turtle is still at home, eight inches long and thriving. He is an ornery cuss. His name is Leonardo.; 5/9/14, 5:02 PM
Rusty said...: Another eastern painted turtle.; 5/9/14, 5:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Waiter! Turtle soup, please.
And make it snappy.; 5/9/14, 7:06 PM
mccullough said...: That would make a pretty cool tattoo.; 5/9/14, 7:08 PM
chickelit said...: I can really see the German word for turtle in that photo -- Schildkröte = shield toad. Well, except for the kröte part which has a murky etymology and sounds like scrota.; 5/9/14, 10:37 PM
Rusty said...: Snapping turtles can get very big and should be respected.; 5/10/14, 9:44 AM