I'm off on Fridays these days, but Andrea isn't. But she is working from home so when last Friday was a warm and sunny one, we made plans to walk around the local cemetery pond on her lunch break.
As expected, the water was super low. We need some rain. In fact, we've never seen this pond so low. Still, walking along the edges stirred up dozens of small Bullfrogs. They were like green bullets but I finally got my camera on one.
One corner of the pond was dry, with just a small channel of water in it. I could see a Snapper was sleeping in the channel, so I snapped a picture...
Surely I could get a little closer if I step into the dried up pond edge...
Oops... not quite as dry as I thought...
A Red-ear was basking out in the middle near an island.
The next turtle we saw was our old Snapper friend Whitey... he of the white face and begging eyes.
He is always looking for a handout. We have given in before but we know it's not a good idea so he went away disappointed this time.
The Bullfrogs continued to be ever-present, hopping in at every turn. A good example of the total frogginess is seen in this picture. I tried to photograph the guy on the far left, not even knowing the others were there.
This guy was keeping a look out for danger... which was present.
Snapper #3 looked at Andrea for a while but when no handouts came, he swam off.
Another surprise Bully... I was photographing the back one. Somehow, I couldn't see the large one in front of him.
The aforementioned danger? This Great Blue Heron was in a very good position to have a Bullfrog Buffet.
Another handsome Red-ear was up doing some sun worshipping on the other side of the island.
Almost to the car, we saw one more Snapper who was probably seeing if we had food.
But wait... there was another one coming in from the left...
It was another familiar face... Pandaface.
Sure enough, there was an altercation. (We've seen it happen here before.)
And when it was done, Pandaface, the bigger turtle, was the victor. 
The other guy didn't stray too far... just in case we had food. But we didn't.
In fact, that was all the time we had. But that was a great lunch-break.
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