This photo (taken through a screen and a window with a sun reflection) captures a squirrel lying prone on a branch in an attempt to survive the DC heat.

This is easily in my top five favorites of pictures I’ve ever taken.

This picture was taken on my first digital camera and was actually one of the earliest images I’ve taken. Sentimental qualities far outweigh image quality.

In finding pictures to put up everyday, I end up going back through old albums when I can’t go out and take new shots.  A great majority of the time I end up finding stray and unexplained squirrel photos.  Such is my omnipresent interest in what someone once labeled my totem animal.  In honor of this curious creature, I now dub this coming week as Squirrel Week, all of the excitement of Shark Week and none of the popularity.

Taken in the British Museum. On a side note, it’s interesting that most European museums allow photography inside.