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<\/p>\nJust checking in.<\/p>\n
Surgery recovery continues to thoroughly kick my ass but yesterday morning, while I was attempting to organize all the self-addressed stamped envelopes readers have sent me for Amaranth seeds, I looked up from my kitchen table and spotted this in my back yard.<\/p>\n
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1\/1250, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n A Red Squirrel munching on an unopened sunflower on my back fence. The way I’m moving these days I knew it would take me forever to retrieve my photo gear from its storage shelf and get it set up for photos, so by then I expected the squirrel to be gone. It wasn’t.<\/p>\n It never turned its head to put full light on its face but the way that googly-eye stands out, with catchlight, partially makes up for it. This squirrel is the first and only living thing I’ve photographed in 19 days so it helped to scratch my itch and I decided to share – in part to let you know I’m still kickin’.<\/p>\n It may be a while before I get Amaranth seeds mailed out and, as expected, I don’t have enough to fill demand. But as promised I’ll fill the requests in the order I received the SASE’s until the seeds are gone, playing no favorites. Apologies to those who won’t receive any.<\/p>\n And for those of you who used the opportunity to include get-well notes, cards or gifts with your SASE – thank you! Your thoughtfulness reminded me how anxious I am to get back to my (our) normal routine.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n