So today’s photographs are actually some comparison photos of the same area (before we got basically a foot of rain in a week; and then a more recent photo).

Turtles sunning themselves on an semi-submerged tree stump

So there is a semi-submerged tree stump that is floating in the one cove that turtles have been flocking to this year for sunning themselves. Usually there are a good half a dozen adult turtles sharing the space.

Same log–but quite a bit more is currently underwater.

So the lake is still up quite a bit as one can tell from the pictures. There is only enough dry space for two or three turtles (and one of them actually climbed up to the V), instead of the usual six to nine turtles.

There is a turtle in the V.

The V only has room for one adult turtle, and this one managed to grab the spot first.

This has actually been a very wet month for us–we’ve gotten a little over 19 inches total (but almost 2/3 in the past week). So it will probably be another week or so before the log is back to it’s normal level in the lake and more than two or three turtles can fit on it.