The Compulsive Ramblings Of A Philotherian: albino

We were in need of a few items for dinner, so we decided that, instead of going all the way to town, we would just shop at our local grocery store. And when I say grocery store, I mean glorified with convenience store less items than an actual convenience store. BUT, they do have a deli, which was the main reason for our venture.

Since that is the one and only store in all of Des Arc, all 153 residents just had to be there at the same time. When things like this happen, we just drive down old county roads, or to the graveyard, whichever we're feeling at the time. We opted for the road this time.

We were about a mile in, when out of the corner of my, I saw a flash of white! This white ball ended up stopping just at the edge of the road, only long enough for me to see that it was an albino squirrel! Something I've NEVER seen in person people. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen an albino anything in the wild before. I quickly grabbed for the camera, but the squirrel was no where to be found. I talked about it for a good 10 minutes, just to make sure that LaVaughn knew exactly what it was... I think she got the idea.

On our way back -- in almost the exact same spot -- we saw it again! This time, we were ready for it. LaVaughn somehow managed to grab one picture of it as it was sitting there, then one as it was running off -- which is completely unrecognizable.

So yes, the albino squirrel is captured for all of eternity!

I couldn't help but stop and take pictures of the roadside flowers. LaVaughn made her way back to the car, but I hung around for another 5 minutes taking repetitive pictures. In my defense, it was a new road with new scenery. At least I don't have the same boring pictures from around the yard to share. :)

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's the albino squirrel! Or leucustic squirrel, not really sure.

And some more pictures from the drive...

There was a spider there too... do you see it? Shutter!

Spectacular lighting today.

Cattails!

Another bug!

It's sad how much I love finding bugs to photograph.

Beautiful, white roadside flowers.

Have I mentioned lately that Tony is the cutest mouse in the world? If I haven't, I'm doing so now. Not only is he the cutest mouse, but he's also the sweetest! Ever since we found that plastic ball in our storage unit we've been bringing him in the kitchen and letting him run around like the Mad Hatter! He loves it too. Every hour or so, we get him out and clean his ball out. All the while feeding him treats while he sits in our hands. He's just to die for.

In glider cuteness, LaVaughn had both Kira AND Logan in her shirt pocket a few minutes ago. Talk about cute! Logan was the first to go in, then Kira followed where she layed on top of him. It's sickening how cute they are sometimes.

Also, we watched Taken 2 last night... wow! Now that was something special. It started out a little on the funny side, then got a teensy bit better. It took a few minutes for the action to really kick in and by that time we were nearly 30 minutes in. I questioned a few things that were taking place at the time - they just seemed so... fake and unbelievable. There was one good part involving a gun, then the movie started spiraling downwards into a vortex of ineptitude. By the end of the movie I just wanted to watch the original Taken and pretend the second one didn't happen. They seriously tried WAY too hard with this one. Of course, Liam Neeson was awesome, but the dialog and the concept of the movie completely blew. The whole time I was watching, i couple help but think that they were trying to prove a point or something. It's worth the watch if you want to say you watch it, but if you want to spare yourself, just stick with the original.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are the photos: