Target Practice!
Just over six months ago I was photographing randy tortoises near the spot where I found this old computer monitor. What was it doing here I wondered?
And then I saw the pellet marks!
It was used for target practice, no doubt by some city kid . . .
Difficilis,querulus, laudator temporis acti.
Sepuero, castigator, cesorque minorum
Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey..
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