The Penn Stater Magazine

A Picture of a Sun-Bathing Turtle

April 7, 2009 at 4:16 pm Ryan Jones 1 comment

I just looked out my office window to see flurries blowing nearly horizontal over the duck pond outside the Hintz Center. This reminded me of what I was doing exactly 48 hours ago: Sitting on the grass next to that very same duck pond, in shorts and a t-shirt, enjoying the light sunburn on the back of my neck.

I do love springtime in Happy Valley.

Anyway, I brought the office camera along over the weekend and, among pictures of my 4-year-old digging for dinosaur bones at the pond’s edge (he found several, thank you), I snapped one of the pond’s resident turtle, legs splayed behind him, sunbathing.

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I would assume he’s spending the better part of today with his extremities tucked under his shell.

Ryan Jones, senior editor

Entry filed under: University Park campus. Tags: Duck pond, Hintz Family Alumni Center, Sun-bathing turtle.