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The Hopping Dead
This week’s Saturday Squirrel photos were kindly submitted to me by Emily, who writes a blog called Nerd in the Brain! She took a few photos of a cute little sciurine while on a field trip, and when...
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Tie A Squirrel Tail ‘Round The Old Oak Tree
I didn’t prepare a Saturday Squirrel post yesterday like I’ve been in the habit of doing in advance lately, and I’m more tired this morning than a possum playing real life Frogger… so I just looked...
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Bend Me, Shape Me
Anyone who has seen squirrels at play knows they are incredible athletes with graceful bodies capable of death defying scrambles and leaps from heights that would give you vertigo. Their little furry...
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Little Rascals
May Day! May Day! It looks like I’m heading straight into my second month of answering your prompts you left for me! Not that I mind… I’m having a blast so far, and there are still quite a few great...
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Fourth Meal
My sister Nicole took this picture with her phone in the backyard of the old homestead a couple weeks ago… and while it’s not the sharpest picture ever, you can clearly make out a squirrel holding...
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Look At The Birdie!
It’s just another cute profile picture of a squirrel in my backyard…. though this one has something non-sciurine in it that catches your eye. What’s with the blackbird butting in on my photo shoot?...
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High On Weeds
During the months when it becomes a necessary evil to mow the lawn to keep my property from being legally declared a rain forest, I am notorious for usually sometimes slacking on that particular...
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Trophy Squirrel
You may recall the character Hickory from “The Wizard of Oz” proclaiming that one day they would build a statue of him in this town… foreshadowing his later role in the movie as a rusted tin junkpile....
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Fox Photo
My first full week back to work after taking a vacay is always hell on my poor, aging, decrepit body that was so used to doing absolutely nothing for nine days. I haven’t done a whole lot except work...
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The Quicker Chewer Upper
If you have a dog, you know that they have a tendency to chew on pretty much anything that doesn’t start chewing on them first. Like their canine frenemies, squirrels are also avid chewers to help...
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Sharing Is Tearing
Marilyn is on vacation this week, but I’ve so enjoyed telling stories from my photos old and new every Wednesday, that I’m going to carry on with my contribution to the Serendipitous Photo Story Prompt...
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Walk Like A Squirrel
Generally when we see squirrels in motion on the ground, they tend to be moving in one of two ways. They are either darting around like their bushy tails have caught fire, or they’re hippity hopping...
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Going My Way?
Here’s another photo I took during my trip to the local park during my week off back in May. If this doesn’t look like a hitchhiking squirrel, I don’t know what does. Sure, he doesn’t have the thumb...
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Hey Neighbor!
For as long as there’s been private property, there have been fences to enforce the boundaries. Neighbors have been meeting along these fences to catch up on the latest gossip and chew the fat for...
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Luncheon On The Grass
When I change out the corn cobs in my squirrel feeder, I merely pitch the empties into the yard to eventually get mulched by my mower. Sometimes, a squirrel can’t help but to try and get every last...
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That’s What It’s All About
You put your left foot in, You put your left foot out, You put your left foot in, And you shake it all about, You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around That what it’s all about. A … Continue...
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A Garden Party
Among the many ways people seem to find squirrels to be pests is the way they will treat gardens as their own personal all you can eat buffet. You can’t really blame the squirrels for this destructive...
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A Marsupial Mecca
It’s been a loooooong week preparing for today’s inventory at Mecca, but my weekend has finally arrived, and with it another exciting Frisbee Wednesday Photo Prompt… sponsored as always by the...
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A Tight Squeeze
I’ve talked before about how squirrels build nests in trees to help make their own little piece of arboreal paradise feel like a home. These nests are often located in the forks of tree branches where...
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Danger Squirrel
When I was a kid, I was fascinated with telephone poles… and since I grew up in a day when it was merely chalked up to Darwinism any time a kid got themselves hurt or killed doing something stupid, a …...
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