This photo is in one of my albums and I must explain, lest the Internet think I am krazzee.
This is a picture of two turtles having sex, er, sorry... mating. 
As they like to say in the animal kingdom. Back in April of 2003, I spent a Saturday in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia with my two good friends at the time, Christy and Afsheen . (by "at the time" I do not mean we are not still friends, just our life paths are no longer crossed, however, Christy and I keep up with each other pretty well, while she is jet setting across Europe in her quest) As we were leaving beautiful Harper's Ferry we walked along the C & O Towpath, not TOEpath and noticed something moving in the water of the canal. Being the love child of mother earth that she is, Christy ran toward the water worried that a duck was trapped in some detritus that an earth-hating West Virginian had carelessly discarded without even a shred of knowledge about the benefits of recycling, only to find ... the conversation went something like this...
C: “It’s a fish”
A: “Nah, doesn’t look like it, whoa!, it’s a turtle”
S: “It’s a hurt turtle, look how it is thrashing about. How can we help it?”
A: “Oh wait a minute, it is a bunch of turtles”
C: “Are they fighting?”
S: “Ohmygod”
C: “Ohmygod”
A: “What?”
C: “Its two turtles, not fighting, … having sex”
The next five minutes consisted of three grown adults sitting in the wet grass in total silence with our mouths agape, watching in awe as a Discovery-channel-like scene unfolded in front of our eyes. The turtles thrashed around, holding each other with their front arms. These were big turtles, mind you. Then swam together for about five minutes and then went their separate ways.
There you have it, nature, at its finest. And, I thought that "donation" you are "required" to make at the parking lot was going to waste!
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