It is definitely spring!

On my way home tonight I stopped the car and just smiled.  Why?  There just leaving the ditch in my front yard was a snapping turtle.  This was not just any snapping turtle; it was our snapping turtle.  No, we have never owned a turtle, but we do seem to share the same home address with this particular one.  For several years now in the fall we have watched as this turtle (I think I will call him Hermon) has crawled into our muddy ditch next to the road to hibernate through the winter months.  Somehow either my husband or myself spot him as he makes his first appearance in the spring.  AND this year I was the lucky one.  Hello Herman and hello spring!