An afternoon adventure: On the way home from the grocery store, we saw this snapping turtle in the middle of Hooper Branch Road. I was so afraid he'd get hit by a car. I decided to nudge him with my umbrella to make him cross to the side of the road. He wasn't having it. Each time I touched him with the tip of the umbrella, he turned and lunged at me---fast! He was fairly aggressive. I wasn't about to try to pick him up because he was heavy and a serious biter. My husband was in the car encouraging me: "You're gonna get hit by a car!" I hurried home for a wooden oar, but when I drove back a few minutes later, he was gone. "Slow as a turtle" does not apply to snapping turtles. Trust me, he was huge. Grandpa Stevenson would have been impressed.
