Turtle

Nice, sunny weather at the mo so we went for a walk to the lake. On the way we found this little fellow on the grass verge next to a parking lot.



Although he was covered in mud, we could still see his bright orange underside and head stripes. We carried him to the lake and found him a nice rock pool out of the way. When we got back home we looked up what he was likely to be: current thoughts are towards him being a Painted Turtle.

Seasonal Weather

It was spring a couple of days ago; the brown grass was getting green and some crocuses had popped up their little heads. Then it started to snow, and has been for the past two days. We got about four inches and the roads had to be ploughed again. I was warned April was going to be varied in weather, but I didn't expect a mini winter. To be fair, this is apparently more snow than is normal, on average, for this part of the world, a part that seems to blame a lot of the weather on the "effect" of the lake. I'm sure there won't be any "lake effect" hurricanes, though.