When we moved into our home in 2014, we never imagined our yard would become a thriving turtle habitat. Over the past decade, we’ve documented more than 20 individual Eastern Box Turtles using simple photo tracking — no paint, no tagging, just curiosity and care. Here’s how you can do the same.

My clients all want “year-round interest” in their garden. If you do as well, a helpful tool for achieving this is to look at something like a seasonal color chart. You can put something like this together yourself, or if you live in the SE Virginia(ish) area, you can cheat and borrow mine!