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As my carefree companion and I skipped carelessly down the street, home from another elementary day at a school where conduct grades matter more than academics, we saw--much to our boyish delight--a box turtle, shimmering in the sliver of afternoon sunlight that my street’s looming cindero of pine trees allows. The creature seemed to be in a struggle of dire consequences from the distance we glimpsed him; he must claw his way over the cement curb, or admit defeat, and bake in the sun to become a crispy tortoise tart.

Yet somehow, despite all its struggling, the creature seemed to be getting nowhere at all, but appeared to simply

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Wed Aug 4, 2004, 1:00 PM

I went out on a little photo shoot with a digital camera today. I went to my neighbor's house where I'm doing a bunch of work in her backyard, mainly cutting up roots so she can fill in a space with grass. So, enjoy.

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Current Residence: Houston, Texas
Interests: Techno/trance music,
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~TheCrazyCat Nov 17, 2005, 6:58:18 AM

meh!

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~Gynevra Jul 26, 2004, 1:26:15 AM

tnk for your comment for my work "Artistic Nude"

~katieq Jun 13, 2004, 7:45:28 PM

oooooooooooooo pot

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~VixenFox May 25, 2004, 4:48:23 PM

Thank you so much for the fav ^_^

~johanngray May 26, 2004, 10:13:03 PM

anytime, love your photography.. it's just nice and simple, I get awful tired of looking at pictures of bugs on roses that people sell prints of for 40 dollars because it's considered really high art- also, you're cute, which is probably a big help to the overall effect of em