Freezing

Much colder with a biting wind but the only thing that was  freezing was this grey squirrel, clamped to  the ash tree it ran up when the  dog and I passed beneath. Instead of flinging itself through the branches it decided instead to freeze in plain sight, a strategy that certainly confused the dog who paced to and fro beneath but allowed me to train my modest lens on the beast until my cold hands began to freeze too.