Two Turtle Morning

Beautiful fresh morning for a walk in the Woods. I started from the NW entrance, walking in quietly to see if I could spot any large creatures playing in the enlarged flooded area of sedges and willows.
Just north of the water, right on the trail, I found the first box turtle of the year for the Woods, for me. Carpenter documented box turtles passing the winter burrowed in the deep leaf pack in the ravines just north of the water. With their 100+ year lifespan, this could have been one of the turtles Carpenter recorded.
A few more interesting insects this morning: a couple of jelly-bean-sized small wasps energetically searching margins of new leaves of annual herbs.. looking for caterpillars ? or spiders? or other; a female mosquito landing in vain hope of finding a snack, a few crane flies, one dragonfly (midst of 2 Pecan trail - none others observed).
Most of the spring flowers are bloomed out and gone now. A few Erigeron annuus (?) white and yellow fleabane daisies are newly blooming.
The NW Pond was at 2.55 ft and the East Pond was at 2.22 ft.
The wet soil along the trail looked to have been recently dug up - probably by armadillos, maybe raccoons. The soil smelled richly of humus.
The water along the wash looked to be perturbed by something larg-ish, like a crayfish snake, or turtle, or something else; but I did not see a creature, until on the way out there was a good-sized red-eared slider basking up on a raised log on the south side of the NW Pond. First pond turtle I've seen there in a year or two(?) Interesting life, to be able to just suspend and not move around for months, or longer, if conditions are not the best.
Several of the large old pecan logs are sufficiently decayed now (soft rot, falling apart) that they may be just about right for finding Hercules beetles.
With mild temperature and recent fresh spring rains, this may be the time of greatest, most rapid growth in the Woods. They are exploding with life.