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More Photos for Monday

September 5, 2011 by geekmummy Leave a Comment

I was really pleased with my #SilentSunday post this week, but as there was a bit of a story behind the photo, and some other good ones that I took at the same time, I thought I would indulge myself and share more with you today.

We were walking back home from our local park where we had attended the grand opening of the (fabulous) new toddler play area when we saw a squirrel next to a tree near the path. I did what I normally do in these circumstances and got all excited with the geekdaughter – “look darling, a squirrel!” The geekdaughter stopped alongside me, and we watched. And as we watched, we realised it was not one, not two, but three squirrels, all playing together around the tree trunk.

The next thing that happened was that they saw us. And rather than running away, they started running towards us. I told the geekdaughter to stand very still and just watch. And I grabbed my iPhone from my pocket in order to get a shot.

The squirrels noticed us

At about this point, I started thinking I might be able to get a #SilentSunday shot. Maybe I could even crop in nice and tight to get a cute picture of the three squirrels. Something like this perhaps:

OK, probably a crop too far - it's a bit pixelated isn't it? 🙂

No, that wasn’t going to work. But then, to my surprise, they just carried on running towards us:

They kept coming towards us

The leader was so brave that he came up and stood on the geekdaughter’s foot (I was stage-whispering to her to stand very still at this point, which, bless her, she did!)

Standing on the geekdaughter's foot!

I was even more surprised when one of them came dashing over to me as well:

That's my shoe, my knee and the pushchair wheel...

The geekdaughter even managed to touch one of them, although I did tell her to stop right away as I didn’t want her to get bitten. This was the first contender for my #SilentSunday post:

Making friends

I just couldn’t get over how tame this little guy was being. Again, this was another possible choice for my #SilentSunday picture:

Very tame squirrel

And let’s not forget that by this point I’ve been joined by another one, which makes two squirrels sitting under the geekson’s pushchair:

Squirrels sitting under my pushchair

But in the end, I chose my #SilentSunday picture because it managed to capture several different things – the tame squirrel, my gorgeous girl, and the fallen Autumn leaves she’d been collecting to make a picture with when we got home:

I love squirrels, and this was the most amazing interaction! I kept telling the geekdaughter how usual it was to be able to get close to wild animals like this, but I don’t know if she appreciated that or not.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing some of the “also-rans” this week!

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