Back on the Water

Ooh, it was so much fun getting out in my kayak for the first time this year. This poor fella was slow enough to be netted and photographed - it's a musk turtle (Sternothaurus odoratus), also known as a stinkpot. He looked like an armored vehicle.

I was serenaded by spring peepers along the banks, and I also managed to spot my marsh marigolds returning very unobtrusively on the bank, despite having looked for them determinedly from shore, without success, just one day prior.

 

It was very windy and overcast, but with temps in the mid-seventies, it was bliss! Plus, there are no ticks on the water - big bonus.

Photo: D Schultz

So happy to be able to get back to my happy place!