Every Day They Play

Bandit and the squirrels.

I open the door

and she charges out and to the right.

Her eyes are bright and hopeful.

Most of the time she is not disappointed.

We have a lot of squirrels 

around here.

They play.

The squirrels are active participants who will

come down from the trees and hop around to get 

her attention.

She runs like the wind to their location 

as they shimmy up a tree.

This one flattened itself against the tree 

in hopes that she wouldn't be able to see it.

It must be new.

Normally they just kind of hang on the side 

just out of her reach

or 

they go to the top of the tree to run branch to branch 

until they come down another tree to begin the 

game all over again.

Its all fun and games

until she actually catches one.