The turtle... still why

Because in a blog somewhere, someone was trying to collect 1000 beautiful things about Romania and I was too selfish to share my thoughts over there as "just comments" I will start with the very first thing that crossed my mind... a turtle in the lake...
I have no idea what it was doing there, but in the lake that I've known forever, that I have admired during summer when the water lilies proudly whitened the dull image of the (otherwise green) lake, on which I have ice-skated during the coldest winters of my childhood, and of whose tenants, about a zillion loud frogs about whom I have (with cute stubbornness ) asserted that they bark, there was a turtle.
A surprising, taciturn and, yet, completely natural, turtle. I think I was the only one on whom the uncommunicative turtle made such a huge impression, but it's the first beautiful thing I thought of and I had to write about it... here and now and for myself:)

Why?

Because today I have (sadly) discovered I don't really know things about my country... I hope it's not (another) failed attempt of promotting her, but rather a place where one can find inspiration about the beautiful places, people and happenings of Romania.
I plan to write about something nice every day because when I am far away I really miss her, my (she-)country:)