



This post is dedicated to my wife's mother. She has been in and out of the hospital for several weeks and last Sunday had double bypass surgery that went well and hopefully she will be home by tomorrow. She loves the outdoors and I couldn't help but think of her yesterday as I went cross country skiing in fresh deep snow. She loves living by Grant Park and Lake Michigan. They also have a few
squirls in the yard being a
heavily wooded area they live in. She loves to put out empty peanut jars for them to lick up. My wife and kids took to two
squirls this past winter that come on our deck to await a few nuts or crumbs we throw out on occasion. More recently my daughter threw out a piece of an orange, and to our surprise he ate it in his perch on a tree limb. My son was quick and got the shot of him.