Splat! I remember one time when making pancakes in Koriyama--I'd put in some apple the way my husband and son liked but then forgot to put butter on the pan so that when I turned it, the heavier-than-usual-batter could do no less than ruffle, form a little slope, seem to shiver a little (was it horrified at what the cook was doing to it?) I managed to save it (to eat myself), but some of the inside batter came out unevenly done, and in the end I had a turtle-looking confection. I don't think I could've made it again if I'd tried. I haven't seen a pancake like it since.
But when I went to the park yesterday afternoon, I saw on the opposite side of the pond--I mentioned the root branch where turtles basked for my Oct. 16 & 24 posts--shapes that looked like turtle shells. But that couldn't be. They'd gone into hibernation, and I'd seen very few turtles in November, none anymore in December. I thought about my July 24 post, in which I mentioned the turtle Rockette who came out of hibernation on a WARM DECEMBER DAY several years ago--could that have happened again? But it wasn't just one turtle; it looked like 2 or 3. I rushed over to the spot to take a closer look.
But as soon as they saw me, the fellas dove back into the water. Funny tho', that still made me happy, because that told me they were living, moving TURTLES, not leaves or rocks that had settled in that corner of the pond to play tricks on my eyes. Besides, when I looked up back across the pond, I saw half a dozen other turtles basking on the other side...yes, near the place I had just left to come here!
