Turtles and Woods Waking Up

Walking along the main E-W Trail a small young box turtle was just emerging from its over-wintering den, one of those anonymous holes along the trail by the biggest old pecan tree.
Up above the Northern Loop Trail, four Ailanthus Tree of Heaven have sprouted new leaves. The very newest are still purple green. The smell of the leaves is different from the nearby young pecan. Tree of heaven leaves are more nutty. A multiflora rose is coming in to full bloom down by the previous Elm Bridge. Water is still full in the wash, although not moving. Walking down from the Tree Loop, a larger animal moved in the water leaving ripples - a garter snake? crayfish snake? turtle? I didn't see it.
Amur honeysuckle Lonicera maackii in bloom on the Dune Trail, and across the wash from the old mimosa stump. A few dozen spider webs are strung across the trail, young small spiders, probably young Micrathena. One good rattlesnake fern is up and growing by the trio of cottonwoods along the wash. Much of the SW levee there has been scoured and covered in blonde sand in the the flood last week. New pink paint has been applied to the trees along the former 'white' trail (Hackberry Alley down to Beaver Dam). I need to find out about this.