Tortoise

There is a tortoise statue at our local zoo that gets a lot of love.  Every spring/summer, thousands of children scramble onto its back and parents get their cameras ready.  I wish it could talk...either it would have misty-eyed recollections of watching children grow up over the years...or it would be a crusty curmudgeon who'd yell something like, "You kids get off my lawn!"  I like to think it would be the former.

Here's the Nugget with our tortoise friend, from his first ride in 2009 and his latest in 2011.