Some bright days. Sudden heat. Brilliant greens.
Wildlife Sightings this week:

 

• the back end of a huge snapping turtle as I disturbed him when I waddled through the shallows of Beatitude Pond
• an enormous green frog. Let me pat his back, but objected to me picking him up and leapt out of reach
• a crayfish, who slipped out of my hand
• a yellow bird, a finch, chirping happily in a maple by the front of Beatitude Pond
• nearly a dozen yellow swallow tail butterflies feeding off the damp driveway, swirling up into a mad haze of wing, black stripes and flashes of yellow when I encouraged them to move away so I could drive across the driveway
• half a dozen or so turkey chicks (what's the proper name?) waddling across the road after mom, as traffic stopped - all two cars of it!