brave squirrel

I was sitting here reading a few newspapers on-line as I do most days of the week. Looking through my window, I saw the most amazing thing: a young grey squirrel trotted along an overhead wire, stopped half-way, then flipped himself up-side down on the wire. Holding on to the wire with his hind legs, he reached out toward the top branches of a small nearby tree. Then, he let go, and was in free-fall for just a second, then caught the branch. And then he trotted down to the ground as if that was the most ordinary thing in the world to do.

Can’t say I know too many human beings who would do that! Isn’t nature wonderful?