December 26 Block

This afternoon our cat, Mittens, and I sat out on the screen porch.  It was 46 degrees on the day after Christmas so we weren't completely crazy, plus this time of year it's actually more of a window porch.  We watched a squirrel on the maple out back.  He was eating something off the bark of the tree.  The squirrel was really working.  I wonder if he was eating lichen or something similar off the bark.  It was a very single minded effort that he kept at for a long time.  That's him, right below the knothole, midway up the central branch....  Mary