Red buds, red tail

Dear Diary,

How I love to watch the comings and goings in the crab apple tree behind the house! More and more birds are returning and of course the squirrels enjoy visiting. This little red squirrel seems especially red. Each one is so different. It must be a trick of the light or the angle from which I photographed him but this one does seemed strangely marked.

So good to see life unfolding...