A Bigger Pool (4.20.12)

Sometimes, the time comes when you outgrow your habitat.  It's only natural to want to spread your wings and fly, but, in this case, our turtles (Lincoln, Ernestine, and Hazel) were just crashing into each other in their small water tank...with no room to swim.  So, after caring for them for about a year and a half (they were my birthday present in 2011), we decided to let them explore a bigger pool.   The big ones took easily to their new surroundings, but, Hazel?  She came back twice and let me stroke her nose before she headed off into the wild (brown) yonder.  A touched parent was I!