I just spied a turtle! This while I was driving my car.
On the side of the road, as I hurried by at the speed limit,
stood a rather stout turtle staring across the road, or seeming to.

I wonder if he was not a SNAPPING turtle.
My reason for this guess,
is the size of his head and neck.
Even though his shell was quite round and thick and large,
his head and neck were SO big compared to the shell
that you wondered how he might manage to pull his head inside.
Which is kind of a giveaway of snapping turtles,
all that muscle tissue in their necks and jaws.

I've never seen a snapping turtle except in photographs before this.