#floridaboxturtle

{{ another #floridaboxturtle making his way across #mybackyard 💕💕👏🏽 #florida }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 #boxturtle #turtle 🐢 #turtlelove ✌🏽😎🐢🌴 #lovemyhood #itsajungleouthere 👏🏽👏🏽💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nzAS8g_M9/?igshid=2vum0aecx6fb

{{ #floridaboxturtle 🐢 #crossingmypath 🌸🌱🐢 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 So many turtles cross my yard on the way from road traffic to wildness #downbythecreek 🌱🌳🌲🌴 I call this little place #turtleslide . 🐢🐢🐢 It gentles down a small incline towards a creek which eventually winds north to the Intracoastal waterway. 👋🏽🙂🌱🌲🐢 When I was young it was ~The Thing~ to make a wee paint mark on the shell so you might know if you saw the same turtle again. 🐢 I do not remember if I ever saw the same #boxturtle twice but I always loved the slow unexpected surprise of them marching across the grass. 🐢 Of course I did fret. 🙄 Always there was only one. How would she find her tribe ? However. They must do as there are so many marching across my path. Turtle is an #animaltotem for me. This was a male reminding me to stay grounded. 🐢 I have everything I need. 🐢 I living a deliberate life is best for me. 🐢 What wildness crosses your life with gentle reminders ? Sunday evening at dusk a large buck 🦌 ran right across me within a few yards. I had been-fretting about my slow healing, bike-crashed hand not healing properly. 🖐🏽 Should I have an X-ray ? From me, personally, a deer reminds me to live fully each moment. Life is quick & gone. 🦌 I had an X-ray Monday morning & there is a fracture which needs professional attention. 🖐🏽 Tomorrow we will see what I am to do. 🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽 To live fully for me means painting, writing, gardening, cooking with my full head,heart & hand. 🐢🦌🌲 (at St. Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEDFBcXgL02/?igshid=1mnak6kae3u8w

{{ #floridaboxturtle 🐢 crawling into my flowerbed 🌸🌸#inmyfrontyard 🌸 #thenerve 😳 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 Going in after my lettuce 🥬 I’m thinking. 🥬🥬🐢 #itsalwayssomething around here. #itsajungleouthere 🐢🐍🦎🦖🐛 This #turtle was relocated to my back yard, down by the creek. #sorrynotsorry 🥬🚫🐢 Turtle —for Air sign Aquarius me— reminds me to Stay Grounded. 🐢 Also during #stayhome #covid she is saying, Home is what you make it. 💕 Be Fully Present and in the Moment. 🌸🐢 Clearly a #goodsign ... Love my turtles 💕 a #vulnerablespecies due to habitat loss & car*strikes ☹️🙁😱 My yard is like ~The Underground Railroad~ for turtles. My backyard is a protected wetlands & species must duke-it-out amongst themselves but -No. Car. Strikes.- so there is that ... 🐢🐢🐢 #terrapenecarolina 🌸🌸🌱🌱🐢💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIq_SRA_Mt/?igshid=7a9krpo6qk39

{{ #floridaboxturtle #boxturtle 🐢 #outforastroll #inmybackyard #staugustine #florida }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 This is the fifth #terrapenecarolinabauri in the past few months. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Each shell is different & you KNOW I photo capture each one. 💕 I did not pick #thisone up to determine gender as it was loping along in a safe place. #itsajungleoutthere 🐢🐍🦎🦖 ✌🏽😎🐢 #ilovenature #totemanimal 🐢 #spiritanimal 🐢Every time I spot one I slow down & breath deeply to feel more grounded. 🐢 I have been cleaning out my kitchen cabinets & this little guy appearing reminds me I really need so little. #isntlifegrand 💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVK0wNDeEL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qwtfofvykz1d