hey - did you hear about...

...old man smith?

well... i don't know who old man smith is... but this little fellow was following me around like there was no tomorrow... wanting to spread all the local gossip... up the tree - around the tree - down the tree - sideways on the tree - making goo-goo eyes at me... mr. friendly, he was - (of course, there were no other squirrels around - so that could have had something to do with it... boo)

so i snapped away - chatting merrily with him about this and that. didn't even bother him that i had no food - and he let me get ever so close to him, too...

another creature to enjoy on a sunny day... hmmmmm... i wonder if he was expecting me to run up and down the tree with him - that would've been a sight for sore eyes... but would also have contributed to

an already

happy day.....