Tag: turtle

but first sleep

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I’ve used this group before.  It’s a sculpture of, I think, eight sleepers.  There is space to sit next or opposite them but I don’t think living people can really relax close to them.

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This is part of a group depicting the night in the garden Gethsemane when all the disciples fell asleep while Jesus prayed.

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The way animals sleep, one can only be envious.

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And what do turtles dream of?

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Cats of course, are champion sleepers.  This one slept next to a busy road and had made this flower pot his own.  A potted cat, so to speak.

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It doesn’t look comfortable but it must be – at the moment this is our cats favourite place for a snooze.

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And this picture is – for me – pure bliss.  Falling asleep while reading a book …  without the dummy, for preference though.

For A Photo a Week: Sleeping.

 

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Yellowbellied slider Gelbbauch Schmuckschildkröte

This yellow-bellied slider was just sitting there and enjoy the sunlight.

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I think his expression just exudes happiness, don’t you think?

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And I couldn’t leave without sharing a photo of this gorgeous cat – she was a regular in the local park.  People took innumerable photos of her, always claiming that she posed for them.  I think she was just enjoying the sun in her favourite spot.

Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Sitting in the Sun.

We call them plated toads

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Yellowbellied slider Gelbbauch Schmuckschildkröte

Yellowbellied slider Gelbbauch Schmuckschildkröte

The first two photos are of a giant tortoise, the next ones of two yellow-bellied sliders (a land and water turtle). I only noticed the spider on the underside of the jaw when I had the enlarged photo on my pc screen.

This is for Black & White Sunday: texture. You will find more photos for this challenge here.

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The turtle doesn’t move

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I saw this yellow-bellied slider (a land and water turtle) and three of his closest friends sunbathing this weekend.  One of the other turtle’s back is in the foreground and the odd angle of the stretched out neck (no doubt to catch some more sun before winter comes) makes the image almost abstract – one wonders which way the head faces.  I prefer the monochrome because it enhances the geometry of the waves in the background, and the head seems even weirder.

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Apologies to Terry Pratchett for misquoting him: THE turtle does move. Just this one didn’t.

https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-y1-08/

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