It is a cool evening for June 7. Sweater weather, actually. The air is fresh and actually chilly. There are puddles alongside the path from yesterday's rain. I was surprised to see a turtle digging up the moist earth, and depositing some newly laid eggs there. I watched the activity for a few minutes, and then resumed my walk. On the way back I noticed that the damp earth was now partially covered and that the eggs were no longer there. A racoon was skulking off with the last of them. How fiendishly clever. The turtle will now have to lay more ovum for the development of its young, and keep a closer watch until the eggs are hatched so that a hungry newcomer will not discover them and disrupt the course of nature.