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Happy Groundhog Day

May the Predictor of Spring come forth to a dark, cloudy sky,

forecasting Spring is near.

 

This is a hoary marmot, a mountain cousin of the same family as the groundhog.

 

Even as a kid I never understood how a groundhog in Punxsatawney Pennsylvania could forecast spring far away in the northwest...? But at least he had a cool name.

 

Regardless of where you live, may Spring be just around the corner.

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Uploaded on February 1, 2011
Taken on July 30, 2010