Some Timely Rain and the Snapping Turtles Emerge
Maine’s Spring and early Summer are usually notoriously wet. Every low pressure front from the northern hemisphere usually shows up our doorstep from March till late June. This year, however, has been very dry. Of course we’ve been loving it and the early tourists have been happy. Today has been the first fully rainy day in at least a month and a half. The fire danger has been very high, so a day or two of rain is just fine. Portland is Maine’s largest and most metropolitan city. You don’t have to travel very far though to get back to nature. My Dad lives in Gray, a rural Portland suburb about 14 miles northwest of the city. It’s snapping turtle laying season and these prehistoric behemoths (up to 70lbs of turtle) come crawling out of the swamps to lay their eggs.
