I find it amusing that my fantasy author, Sandy Lender, receives updates about turtles she doesn't know. There is a charming young woman named Laura Crawford who lives in the northern regions of your country who sent a note to Sandy about a sizable snapping turtle that safely crossed the road. The note mentioned some smaller turtles that made it across a road as well, and Sandy told me this is great news.
Turns out Sandy has pictures in her photo albums of stray, random, wild turtles that her friends have picked up off the road and photographed specifically to send evidence to her that the little reptiles made it safely from one side to the other. Isn't that bizarre? But she seems thrilled to pieces over it, so, what can you do? I think it's one more bit of evidence that she's not quite right in the head, if you know what I mean.
That's a writer for you. Eccentric.
The other messages she gets usually come from sea turtle conservationists. She has a collection of sea turtle images because the Turtle Time volunteers are constantly photographing nests and nesting females and turtle tracks and babies rushing over sand dunes to get to the Gulf. They are remarkable little creatures...
So maybe she's not completely out of her mind to collect these images and to care that these creatures stay safe. But I still find it a little odd.
Tags: sea turtles, Turtle Time, fantasy author, Sandy Lender
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Somehow I don't think Sandy would appreciate my latest turtle story. It had been raining and there were a lot of turtles and frogs on the road. My mother was driving and tried to miss the turtles but grazed one with the edge of her tire. It went "flying" off over the fence on the other side of the road. Thus ends the story of the turtle known as "Zing."
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