January 13

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The 13th was a cold, gray, unphotogenic day.

I saw a melanistic squirrel.  It ran across 7th St. as we were driving home from the grocery.  I think it was a fox squirrel.  That makes two of them I've seen in Ann Arbor(the other, about a year ago, was very near the intersection of Packard and Stone School Rd., which is miles from the place I saw this one).

I just read an article about wildflowers blooming earlier and earlier -- another sign of global warming.

I do wonder if melanistic fox squirrels (which I read, last year, were more common in the south), moving north, are another sign............

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