My brain goes all mushy and mellow when it notices that I’m apparently in proximity of a slower kind of a fellow. 🐢

(Close-up of a radiated tortoise (astrochelys radiata*) , from Wikimedia Commons)

(* Everything is more awesome when you put astro- in it)

  • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    It’s 3AM here. I went from,

    Spiderweb, Spiderweb, Spiderweb (moderately alert)

    To,

    Oh, turtle-shell (calm)

    So yes. Very calming

    • Andonyx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Also thought it was webs in a sunbeam for a sec. The opposite of calming, really.

  • leaky_shower_thoughtEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Nice pic! The texture of the shell is so clear.

    I guess it’s more awe than calm for me.

  • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Weird, yes it does. It’s not that it’s a tortoise, it’s just the pattern and lighting I think. Cool photo!

  • HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I have a pic like this from a sulcata tortoise! She was just wandering around my neighborhood one afternoon, had apparently escaped her enclosure.

    I had it set as my desktop at one point. One of my coworkers at the time, who was few screws short of osha standards, was staring at one day when I came back to my desk.

    She goes, “Is that the Balkans?”

    This happened over a decade ago & I still have no idea where that came from…