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As much as we ourselves

admire and are thankful for

a gorgeous weather day, it is

evident that the forest denizens

are similarly besotted with the day.

They greet us with heart-warming

enthusiasm, large black crow

hot on our trail, securing for

himself one of the cached peanuts, 

crushing it open, eating the

prizes, making way for a red

squirrel, indignant that he has

pre-empted her entitlement.

We are confronted soon by

tail-swivelling black squirrels

aware of what we carry to

dispense, challenging us to remit

them directly, and we oblige.  They

take possession, to rotate the

peanuts in their grasping little paws,

trustingly turn their back to us,

happy with the transaction and

busy themselves with the

consuming business that ensues.