Where to begin? Certainly with the first turtle of the season of the Digs 2012; but at the same time the first posting here since 25 October of last year… I guess that is simply an overwintering absence, and this is essentially a journal of my days in turtle places. My final entry of 2011 […]

A month after my last journal entry, and the day after the first killing frost, I sit down to an account of late September in the Far end of the Great Alder. This is the oft-described – in my books and in this journal – shrub swamp compartment to which many spotted turtles retreat for […]