Experiential Bliss: Oh Athens Squirrel-ees, how I ♥ thee!

[thedarksiren2]

I decided to use up the end of a seemingly endless roll of film this afternoon (see also: procrastinating for no good reason but because I am tired of being responsible~;P) despite the rain and gloom trying to steal my joy.

I took pictures of gold and crimson trees, whose dampness seems to make the colors more intense. Also, there are strange salty-stains on the stairwells out on the catwalk, some of which have started to grow stalagmites/ -tites (I can't remember which is which right now). The stains give the impression that the buildings are weeping, which I find strangely beautiful.

Then, there were the squirrels.

I said to the Universe, "Hey, I'd give up this entire roll for just one good pic of those squirrels."

Needless to say, the Universe wasn't cooperating. Big surprise...we've been kinda cat-fighting for a while now.

BUT, in my attempts, I managed to watch one specific squirrel for a while, crouching beside a stairwell with my camera in the shoot-position, and witnessed one of the funniest things I've ever seen. In fact, I can't help but grin as I type this...

I was about twenty feet from the tubby grayish thing, who was digging furiously for that one nut...you know the one. It's that really really GOOD one, and no other will substitute.

Don't even act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
~;)

So yeah, he's digging, and digging, and suddenly, he hears a noise. He darts up to full-standing position, waiting quite still and wide-eyed for the source of the noise to reveal itself.

Eventually, in what I took as a premature decision to run before the ferocious source showed up at his backside, the squirrel jumped a good three or four feet, into a puddle...and right on top of a bird.

The bird flittered abit, water splishing about crazily.

But the funniest aspect of this whole incident was the back-flippy-fling-twist-thing that the squirrel did, and still he managed to travel another two feet away from the flitty-splishy bird!

I almost fell over, I was laughing so hard.

Of course, it was the last exposure, so it didn't even forward enough to have captured the event, although I really did try to capture it.

We shall see!

Comments

[oqidaun.livejournal.com]

squirrel assaults puddle bird! film at eleven!

[tiktiktok.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Those sorts of experiences are sometimes better left in the memory instead of on film.


As far as the universe... when up against an opponent that much larger than yourself, you've got to fight dirty. ;)

[dyadfaerie.livejournal.com]

of which have started to grow stalagmites/ -tites (I can't remember which is which right now).

-tites grow from the top, is what i was taught way back in the day of middleschool. T is for Top they said. It was on a quiz.

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