chipmunks are just too cute

This is your smile for today.  I know I can use one -will be attending a memorial this afternoon for one of my Busy Bee quilting friends Nancy Horn, a lovely lady and phenomenal artist.  Unfortunately several others in the group are also not doing well these days. It will be so sad to lose their friendship - and also their amazing know-how.

This little guy brings back happier memories of feeding the chipmunks at a ghost town called St. Elmo, in Colorado, when the kids were little.  Brazen critters - I seem to remember that one ran inside Alex's shirt!  We would also stop at a roadside waterfall just before heading up and over Wolf Creek pass each summer on our annual vacation to Colorado.  It was a spectacular view, but the kids were always more interested in feeding the chipmunks that lived there.  

 He obviously liked these goldfish (seriously doubt there were any in the creek at the bottom of the waterfall...)

Playing in the snow at the top of the pass was always fun, too - especially after just escaping Arizona's summer heat!  This was July of '95 - not as much snow as some years, but obviously still nippy on the hands!