Turtle in the Grass

@MaryB: I've heard you don't have snakes in the UK; you don't have turtles either? You have to be careful of snakes around here. Most aren't poisonous, but we do have Rattlesnakes, pit vipers like the Water Moccasin, and Coral Snakes (which are very poisonous, but, as I understand it, limited in their ability to bite due to the small size of their "mouth" and fangs).

I see turtles crossing the highway all too frequently. I can't always stop. I'm not even sure that stopping and carrying them across is the best thing to do. But usually when I see them they are stopped somewhere near the middle of the road. There are dead animals all along the roads here, so whenever I see an animal on the road, or even alongside the road, as I often see deer, I fear it will be another victim of the murder machine we call an automobile.