i have become obsessed with something odd

[rm]

Very small turtles with very large food.

There is turtle with potatoes:

Turtle with strawberry:

And now turtle with raspberry:

Patty's been using them as desktop images on her computer.

What is up with these turtles?
Why are they so adorable?
Why do they turn me into such a cooing girl?
Are there other tiny turtles with giant food pictures I've not yet seen?

Comments

[coatkneedee.livejournal.com]

i love turtles. <3

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

See latest post.

[bravencrazy.livejournal.com]

Aren't they the sweetest things? I love animals.

There's a seed seller on eBay who loves turtles and owns several. She has some pictures of them on her eBay About Me page and on her own website.

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

I want one! Or four.

[monkeycurious.livejournal.com]

"Nom Nom Nom" ;)

[virginia-fell.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are amazing and no, I don't know why.

[phaenix-ash.livejournal.com]

they get *exactly* the same response out of me.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think it is something about the juxtaposition of sizes. Plus, turtles are cute.

[chite.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh that is awesome.

[dien.livejournal.com]

I has squeeing turtle luv.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

Turtles are just adorable. They have such serious little faces and walk around so deliberately. We have two aquatic turtles who live in a tank in our kitchen. Now they're big enough to eat a whole grape but they were once the size of quarters and we had to cut grapes in half for them.

thanks for these pictures!

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT KNOW.

A MYSTERY OF THE UNIVERSE.

THEY DO IT TO ME, TOO (especially the last one).

I WILL LOOK.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I can't have them at the moment because of the animals we rescue (it would be a bad fit), but I've always had a huge soft spot for turtles. They are very endearing creatures, to me.

Your pictures are all lovely, but the third one is astonishing. The raspberry sets off not only the size of the turtle, but the iridescence of its coloring and the detail of its markings and structure with such starkly simple perfection that it knocks the breath from me. And then there's the deliciously grumpy expression on its face.

Catherine

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, little wee tortoises, sooooooooo cute!!! I had a little Greek tortoise named Persephone once, really a sweet pet until reaching puberty, and turning out to be a restless and violent boy tortoise who wanted to bitebitebite EVERYONE!!! He went back to the tortoise farm where he could be a happy stud tortoise.

And, yes, even if the large thing he's biting is YOU, a little tortoise biting a large thing is cuuuuuuuuute! They sort of... CONSIDER things, tilt their heads to decide the best angle from which to attack their food. And they have extremely unexpected pink tongues like kittens.

FUCK! I want another tortoise...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Turtles are intrinsically cute. I've never seen ones that tiny before, definitely and amazingly cute - wow!

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

I have a deep love for little baby sea turtles. Something about watching their first trip across the sand into the ocean brings a lump to my throat every time.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

It bothers me that these pics remind me of the crush porn (is that the right word?) that I believe I learned about on a former incarnation of this very journal.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The turtle/food ratio is not alarming enough

[miep.livejournal.com]

how about turtle with lettuce?

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/melanieostrowski/nochedia1.jpg

[sethg]

OMG CUTE.

So it's not just you.

Maybe you should post these to food_porn.

[aryas_zehral]

The mashed potato looks like it's going to fall on the poor wee turtle!

:) These are cute. I espechially like the strawberry one. Mmmm, strawberries.

(Just popped over here via a comment in rivier's journal. Hope you don't mind random people commenting. :) )

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

I just found this video and thought of you!