Turtle Pond


The same day of the fateful banister slide, I also hung around my much-beloved turtle pond on the north side of the UT tower. It's not my turtle pond, of course, but I spent a lot of time there as a student. I love turtles, and I'd go out of my way to pass the turtle pond every day. It's a good place to have photos taken. Somewhat predictably, this story also made it to klutzy incidents.


Watching the turtles swim about

They're so goddam cute!

I began feeding them little bits of leaves at this point.

One of them gently nipped my finger, which I chose to interpret as cute rather than vicious.

Right before this photo, a snapping turtle leaped out of the water and nearly took my toe off, which is why I'm not so close to the edge in this one.






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