Glendale squirrel

Friday 30 December
Laura was working remotely today, so it was just Roger and I that asking early afternoon at Glenwood Gardens. It was another gloomy day, and although I took a few shots, they weren’t great, so we made a slight detour on our way home into the neighbourhood of Glendale, to get a photo of one of their decorative squirrels. These squirrels date back to their sesquicentennial celebration of 2005, when 25 fiberglass squirrels were set up around the town. There are 13 still in place today, and I have blipped a couple of them before. The significance of squirrels is to pay homage to Glendale’s black squirrel population which emerged in the 1940s thanks to Thomas Carothers III, a local businessman who brought four black squirrels back from Harbor Springs Michigan. The squirrels have since repopulated and become the neighbourhood’s unofficial mascot.