Lupin. I don't remember seeing them before, but have seen a few this year.
I carefully positioned myself so the sun was not shining directly down on me (and the camera!).
West Park, in the morning sun, on a gorgeous day.
I didn't even see this guy on the end of the fence you see above, until I turned to walk on..... Ann Arbor squirrels tend to be very bold and confident around people. This one would have been up the tree, had I had da boyz with me.
Don't you just want to stroke that tail? Assuming you could without getting any fleas and the squirrel didn't bite you?
We have looked at a lot of iris. We have looked straight down at several of them. This one is different -- the petals that usually are curved up over the center of the flower are shorter, exposing the middle more than we have seen in the other flowers we have examined.
This yellow thing turns out to be the same as one I showed you a week or so ago -- only this one doesn't have some flowers in a more orangey hue....
Here's this nice house I keep showing you. Excellent details, no?
Peonies in front of Ann Arbor School of Yoga. They surely have a lovely garden.
Service berries, ripening.
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I've always wished that my pet rats had fluffy tails, instead of 'naked' tails.
I find it ironic that the sweet, cuddly pet rodents, have the bare, UGLY tails, while MEAN squirrels (even hand-raised, they NEVER make 'good pets') have those CUTE fuzzy 'touchable' tails.
I call Traum, my Cardi 'squirrel tail' sometimes, since his tail feels like a squirrels tail.
You know, I never thought of that.
You are right, of course -- it's odd that domesticated rats don't have furry tails. Seems like it might not be *that* hard to breed for them, given squirrels and gerbils and other rodents who do have hairy tails.... ??
Well, at least you've got tails at your house! :-) We've only got one tail in the whole household!
Well, gerbils only have a tuft on the tip of their tail, not a full on 'furry' tail like a squirrel.
Squirrels are kind of in a class of their own, and pretty differnt from rats, mice, and such.
In 10 years of breeding rats, and more of owning them, I've never had a rat with more than the normal 'hard peach fuzz' on their tails. I'm really active in the international online rat community, and judging/rat shows and sadly, have never seen fuzzier tails.
I've had tailless rats (natural bobbed, like some Pemmys), and some of the 'hard peach fuzz' is softer than others, but there hasn't been anyone able to breed for 'fuzzy' tailed ratties.
I have some pics of a long coated (AKA satin, or harley) rattie up on my blog, and flickr account, and you can see that even with long hair on the body, the tail hair doesn't change.
It's a shame, as I really wish rats didn't have the scaly tails! Hopefully in the future, a fuzzy tail mutation occurs!
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