Curious

This cute little guy/gal came out of its pile of lichen-covered rocks to check me out. I had been walking ahead of my two friends on Sunday, when we were on Plateau Mountain again. They had stopped to check for mosses and lichens on the ridge we were climbing, when I caught sight of this little Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel. The deep green bokeh is from the spruce (?) trees on a distant mountain side. This was the only wildlife I saw, other than a group of maybe a dozen Mountain Sheep on the distant slope below the actual flat top of Plateau Mountain. I've only ever once been on the flat top and that was about 30 years ago! It's just too far for me to walk to get from the meadows to the flat top, unfortunately.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-mantled_ground_squirrel

Thunderstorm Watch for Calgary - and it looks like it is about to happen any moment now - just when I have to go out to meet a friend for an early supper, ha. And, here comes the rain and the thunder! Quite welcome, though it would have been nice to have had it overnight instead : )