catch and release

Lucky for me I had been digging up small trees on my brother's property and had buckets in my car. Though it was a little turtle, it was fierce, and those snapping jaws can do some damage! It seemed to know exactly what was up, though, because when I set the black bucket down, it crawled right inside. I slid the blue bucket over it and moved the critter to the side of the road it was headed, into the swamps.