Stepping into the kitchen to make my breakfast, my blinking eyes meet the all the more groggy and blinking eyes of Isaac who has pushed himself out from his winter's sleep beneath the secretary in our breakfast nook to a mid-floor spot in the kitchen.
I greet him, "Ah, Good morning Isaac! Did you have a good hibernation?" With lengthening days and the forecast for mild daylight temperatures, I place him outside in a backyard sunbeam and set him before a patch of freshly sprouted dandelions. Isaac sits contemplatively for a little while, taking in sunbeam energy and slowly letting his systems warm up and slip into gear, much as an old man groans and creaks out of bed and slumps into a dinning room chair awaiting his coffee to finish brewing. Isaac is grateful that I have placed him close to a sweet feast of yellow flowers and after equilibrating with his outdoor environment, he begins to graze upon the dandelion breakfast. With still cold nights, I retrieve Isaac from the yard in the late afternoon and bring indoors for the night.
Isaac has awaken from winter's hibernation before his brother Chomper, who remains under the secretary in the coveted kitchen corner, still catching some of those reptilian Z's. Several days after Isaac has risen to the new season, we fetch Chomper from his corner and plant him in the grass as well. Chomper's legs look skinny and dangle limply from beneath his shell as he is carried to a dandelion patch beside the magnolia. He too catches his own solar energy and slowly recharges his senses.
But soon enough, with the dark winter in the past, Chomper begins to lumber forward like a Star Wars intergalactic transport heading for some bright cluster of dandelions like warm stars in a universe of green grass. Dropping his bulk in the midst of a particularly fine patch of dandelions, he refuels before seeking a safe port beneath the garden bench.
The Desert Tortoise - the First Reptile of Spring!
It Warms my heart.
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