Red Squirrel!
My younger nephew and I went for one of our frequent bike rides today, and we spotted a red squirrel! We first saw one around here two summers ago—it was, in fact, the first time in my life that I had seen a red squirrel—and saw them throughout that summer, in the trees and on the fence lining our driveway and also in the trees and on the fence lining one side of the local park, where we shoot baskets. But we didn’t see any last year, and I was afraid they were gone from this area.
Riding our bicycles today, however, we saw one, again running along a fence and climbing a tree, next to a farmlike property with a pair of horses and, recently, some Canada geese (I counted seven today). I’ve enjoyed seeing the purple tulips around the neighborhood, but seeing the red squirrel was the high point of our ride!