"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"

from Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branchess

by Mary Oliver

These shots of the Red Squirrel are from last year.

at the cabin. I am still trying for good photos from 

this year.

"Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches 

of other lives --

tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, 

hanging 

from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, 

feel like?"

from Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branchess

by Mary Oliver