How beautiful! I used to spot these tortoises roaming around campus when I worked at UNM. There was a little family with babies just outside our office. I also love the rear view mirror on your computer 😆
Oh what joy ! Thank you for this delightful morning post, Andi. How wonderful that you have critters and creatures in your life, like this brown-eyed girl, and a lovely garden too.
Trust your travels are going well. I used to remove Fla. turtles from the roads to make sure they wouldn’t get run over. The land crabs were impossible to save and there would be many of them scattered along the road and smashed by cars and trucks
This was my first tortoise rescue. Not that Van Morrison needed rescuing. She’d survived sight-unseen for three years! Had I done the same, my memoir might be finished by now!!!
Truly the urban-wildland interface. A mile from the wilderness* in one direction; a quarter-mile from Jiffy Lube and Domino's in the other. *According to The Wilderness Act of 1964, a designated wilderness is “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by [hu]man[s], where [a hu]man is a visitor who does not remain.”
Yes yes yes to everything you said. I miss the heights so much! I saw a lynx one morning on the way to work, which is not surprising considering how many cottontails visited right outside my front door. at first i thought, man that's the strangest dog I've ever seen, until i realized what it really was!!! lynx are about three times the size of bobcats, and there was no mistaking the ears and the tail. you are so lucky to live where you do!!
Glad your resident turtle returned! And I love your references to "Dr. Science." Also, that mirror in your office is very good feng shui.
This is so beautiful -- I love the serendipity of the turtle appearing after you'd thought you'd seen one. Like magic.
Thank you, Ava! The universe silently pops its head out to say hello in such unexpected, beautiful ways. xo
How beautiful! I used to spot these tortoises roaming around campus when I worked at UNM. There was a little family with babies just outside our office. I also love the rear view mirror on your computer 😆
Oh what joy ! Thank you for this delightful morning post, Andi. How wonderful that you have critters and creatures in your life, like this brown-eyed girl, and a lovely garden too.
Trust your travels are going well. I used to remove Fla. turtles from the roads to make sure they wouldn’t get run over. The land crabs were impossible to save and there would be many of them scattered along the road and smashed by cars and trucks
This was my first tortoise rescue. Not that Van Morrison needed rescuing. She’d survived sight-unseen for three years! Had I done the same, my memoir might be finished by now!!!
Great story! The Heights are so great for wildlife!
Truly the urban-wildland interface. A mile from the wilderness* in one direction; a quarter-mile from Jiffy Lube and Domino's in the other. *According to The Wilderness Act of 1964, a designated wilderness is “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by [hu]man[s], where [a hu]man is a visitor who does not remain.”
Yes yes yes to everything you said. I miss the heights so much! I saw a lynx one morning on the way to work, which is not surprising considering how many cottontails visited right outside my front door. at first i thought, man that's the strangest dog I've ever seen, until i realized what it really was!!! lynx are about three times the size of bobcats, and there was no mistaking the ears and the tail. you are so lucky to live where you do!!