oil on mdf panel 12.25” x 10.25” -  edged framed in black satin finish metal 

Snapping turtles hold great lore. Every pond has a legendary giant that is as wide as a child's arms can demonstrate - and then again as huge as that grown child's adult arm span in recollection.

"They can break your wrist", "chomp off your finger", we were told - yet nobody truly knows anyone to whom such grave injury occurred.

This one was smaller than an ankylosaurus but definitely bigger than most I've encountered - at least 30" from powerful snout to tail