COMMON BOX TURTLE!

Common Box Turtle---

Is there any such thing as a"common" animal created by God?

This beauty showed up in our front yard this am. Hubby took a pic for us and by the  time we looked again, he was gone and we have yet to find him. Her? 

We had the idea that turtles were slow movers.

God's word tells us God created reptiles, described as "creeping things" on the 6th day of creation. The Eastern common box turtle, a creature that moves along the ground likes to eat earthworms, mealworms and sweet fruit (to be given occasionally as a treat) of strawberries, blueberries and melons.

Box turtles burrow under logs and leaves----sounds like our yard!

Terrestrial box turtles odd facts to us; have spatial memory to guide their navigation, and nerve endings in their shells and can hear without external ear flap.

Seeing the beauty of the small turtle's shell was a great way to start our Saturday as we hum along, "For the beauty of the earth.....over and around us lies. Lord our God to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise! (from my limited memory)