{{ #floridaboxturtle 🐢 #crossingmypath 🌸🌱🐢 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 So many turtles cross my yard on the way from road traffic to wildness #downbythecreek 🌱🌳🌲🌴 I call this little place #turtleslide . 🐢🐢🐢 It gentles down a small incline towards a creek which eventually winds north to the Intracoastal waterway. 👋🏽🙂🌱🌲🐢 When I was young it was ~The Thing~ to make a wee paint mark on the shell so you might know if you saw the same turtle again. 🐢 I do not remember if I ever saw the same #boxturtle twice but I always loved the slow unexpected surprise of them marching across the grass. 🐢 Of course I did fret. 🙄 Always there was only one. How would she find her tribe ? However. They must do as there are so many marching across my path. Turtle is an #animaltotem for me. This was a male reminding me to stay grounded. 🐢 I have everything I need. 🐢 I living a deliberate life is best for me. 🐢 What wildness crosses your life with gentle reminders ? Sunday evening at dusk a large buck 🦌 ran right across me within a few yards. I had been-fretting about my slow healing, bike-crashed hand not healing properly. 🖐🏽 Should I have an X-ray ? From me, personally, a deer reminds me to live fully each moment. Life is quick & gone. 🦌 I had an X-ray Monday morning & there is a fracture which needs professional attention. 🖐🏽 Tomorrow we will see what I am to do. 🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽 To live fully for me means painting, writing, gardening, cooking with my full head,heart & hand. 🐢🦌🌲 (at St. Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEDFBcXgL02/?igshid=1mnak6kae3u8w