The Turtle Who Crossed the Road

The Turtle Who Crossed the Road, originally uploaded by twelvebitphoto.

I saw this turtle in the middle of a country highway. I turned around, stopped my car, and carried him across. You see a lot of dead armadillos, racoons, possums, skunks, and deer along Texas roadways, but not many dead turtles, so maybe he would have been OK on his own. Maybe I scared him more than the speeding traffic. He certainly kept his head tightly inside his shell.