The May-December Relationship...

Claris has been a wonderful tracker of hard-to-find creatures at Dog Days, and she keeps locating one of my favorites, the Box Turtle. They are becoming more and more rare (most people only get to see them along country roads. I have stopped many a time to move them to safer stomping grounds!), and she alerted me to these two, a male and a female together underneath a large blackberry patch; what a wonderful treat! They were seeking out the over-ripe berries that had fallen off and were having themselves quite a feast. The male appeared to be much older than his younger female companion (larger size, more ridges and a shell that had more wear to it), so I think this was a herpetological May-December relationship...