TURTLE GODDESS !!!

 mama turtle goddess in the back side yard next door at the renter.  ♥ ♥ ♥

 the yard was all dry, how did she get her hole all muddy ??  did she pee on it ??  did fluid come out of the egg laying app ??  does she store water somehow in her shell ??  i have no clue about the egg laying and life in general of a female slider mudd turtle ♥

very noble and precious - she covered those eggs up and was gone ... L wants to build a li'l pond back there and fence it in to keep the babies safe.  We did learn they hatch between 45 and 55 days, but usually average is 53 days - we'll be stalking the nest at the end of July to see what happens ♥

i love you

 and THEN
the beavertail cactus the ex-landlord brought me back about 5 yrs ago from out west U.S.A. desert at the place where some actor back in the 1930s or 1950s sat in a famous bar and waited for his girlfriend, who died in a plane crash while he waited ??  My ex landlords went to this famous landmark, walked out into the desert a ways, found the old can, scooped up some dirt and the cactus and brought back on the plane to me in FL.  I had not watered it in the 3 yrs since we moved here to TN from FL and had it sitting by the window on the stereo speaker all this time.  several weeks ago I put it outside and it got rained on but good - so i let it dry out and put it back on the speaker by the front room window & this a.m. I paid attention and saw that IT'S BLOOMING !!!!!

 not a very good pic of the cactus, blurry, but the container and rock on the book is pretty funky

 the kaleidoscope in the background is funny ♥ you can see the li'l blooms on the top and right side

amazingly i got a cool zoomed in pic of the blooms ♥

i'm glad i paid attention.