When I was walking around down by the Cascade River I heard this little shrill rattlesnake meets woodpecker call and tried to figure out where it was coming from. Then I looked up at the tree and there was the funniest little red squirrel staring at me.

He seemed very intent on talking to me, chatting and squealing as I stood there and talked to him.

I liked to think he was saying, “who are you? who are you? I have a pine cone! I have a pine cone!”

He would race up to a foot or so from my face and then squeak and run back to the trunk of the tree.

I invited him to come home with us but he declined. He had his pine cone and that was all he needed. Oh if life could be so simple.

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