Around the house, post-Irene

Over a couple of mornings last week I snapped a few pictures that I like. One is of our vase full of sunflowers, which were knocked down in Irene:

The other is from our side door, a picture of a squirrel. I tried to snap a pic of him when he was atop the fence post, munching grapes that, along with a piece of vine, had come down in the storm. But just as I tried to photograph him, he nearly dropped the segment of vine. He caught it well before it hit the ground: