Ascending Painted, Henne

I spent most of the afternoon at our local middle school, where I volunteer from time to time as an environmental educator to take students out into the "wild" and help them learn about the natural world. Today's task was to liberate young Brown Trout that the kids had raised into a nearby stream and though I have numerous pictures of the successful mission, I can't post any, since I don't have permission and I don't want to do anything that might wear out my teaching welcome. Afterwards, however, I decided to take a side trip to the Henne Preserve, which just happened to be en route towards home, and though it was ostensibly a documentation trek for Red-headed Woodpeckers and other birds, mostly, I simply needed a good walk. So, apparently, did this Painted Turtle, which was taking advantage of the sunshine and relative warmth to exercise his legs and, from the looks of his trajectory, get in some serious climbing. I don't have a model release, so I hope he doesn't mind the publicity.