My Person is so very sentimental and is practically going around the backyard saying goodbye to the flowers. It seems that it is officially autumn and the flowers are past peaky and getting in short supply.
Some of my back yard companions are getting scarce too. This cute little fellow was a regular for a while this summer even though my yard was chock full of men with power tools for months and months, or at least weeks and weeks, sending up great choking clouds of sawdust, leaving the gate open and interfering with my job, which is to be in the yard doing what I want whenever I want. (But I got a porch out of it so I won't complain too loudly.)
Anyway, the little Red Squirrel packed it in after a while and moved down the road a bit. I am left with the much more common and imperturbable gray squirrels and they will be around all winter too. But it was fun having this guy's almost constant presence and a new sound in the back yard as he chipped his bossy warning cries from the treetop and went about his business gathering food. And napping.
Ah, languid days...I think there are still some to come and there are still sights to see in the yard.
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