Nuts? I don't think so.

Who Needs Nuts When You Can Eat Mushrooms?

And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, 

To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; 

When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, 

And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, 

The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, 

And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.

-- William Cullen Bryant 

A squirrel hangs securely from his back feet as he nibbles on a morsel of food.

 As I was fetching more wood from our wood pile I came across several rather large stashes of dried mushrooms, carefully gathered from the forest and hidden there by one of our resident squirrels. I hated to disturb his winter food stores so I tried to carefully put them back where I found them, all the while being loudly scolded by said squirrel as he watched me from a nearby tree. I know we will continue to disturb his precious mushrooms as we deplete the wood pile over the winter but I hope he will be able to find them again when the snow gets deep and food is scarce.

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