Nature

Lily, Bill and I were walking along the pond on Monday when we saw four baby wood-ducklings drop out of a huge tree and land smack in the middle of the road. They waddled around, stunned. Bill guided them across the street, and mama duck, responding to the peeping, appeared from behind a house. They all made it safely to the pond.

Then on Wednesday we were walking Lily along the pond upstream of the causeway, and we saw a painted turtle on the path. Lily was very intrigued, and we had to hold her back. Bill picked the turtle up, and we saw that she had been laying eggs. They were like large white jellybeans in a hole she had dug in the sandy soil with her back legs. So we put her back so she could finish her work.