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So wow….I have been taking pictures of campus squirrels for nearly 10 years - and today I had an experience I never had before. It was a rainy day (in the morning) in Ann Arbor - Monday May 14, 2018. I have noticed squirrels living inside Michele Oka Doner's 2009 bronze casted statue "Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider" before. But this was something cool. Well, it started that way. I noticed that the first one out was a mother. Then I realized that there were juveniles in the nest. In the morning, two of them came out of the nest and were relaxing on top of the sculpture. Before I left campus, I took another turn through campus and went back to the sculpture. I saw the mom and started taking pictures. I then heard one of the juveniles make loud noises in the cavity - though I did not see it. Then I realized that the squirrel mom was coming at me. She thought I was threatening her babies. She climbed up my leg and jumped to the other. I gave her some peanuts but she did not stop, so I started walking away and giving her and her nest space. She followed me to the edge of the Museum of Art to make sure I was gone. So I am going to give them a bit more space tomorrow - and wear heavier pants. Crazy day on Monday May 14th, 2018.
Michelle Vevante, a teacher at Jericho Middle School, is bundled up against the cold during the Making Strides of Long Island walk at Jones Beach, New York on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Fickies for NYSUT
Striding Edge from the Summit of Helvellyn, taken August 2007. For more of my pix go to www.helvellyn.com
A water strider is only the suggestion of a creature,
A wisp of wire and thread—
That walks by faith, its changeling shadow
Of globular gray paddles fringed in sharp mirrors
It moves against current, just enough
From Field Notes -- November Creek in Slow Road Home: a Blue Ridge Book of Days. Image from Nameless Creek, October 2006 (Hey! you think it's easy to get a camera looking DOWN on a water strider?!)