Posted on 08/13/2009 1:51:40 AM PDT by Daffynition
Melissa Brandts and her husband were surprised to find a squirrel posing with them in a photo taken on holiday.
The couple had set the timer on their camera while posing at a lakeside in a national park in Canada.
Just as they were about to be captured on camera the cheeky squirrel popped up in the foreground and stole the show.
The picture was taken at the side of the stunning Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada.
Mrs Brandts said: "We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot."
The picture was submitted to the website of America's National Geographic magazine.
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Cheers!
I love that picture - I wonder if any of our guys in Iraq or Afghanistan have seen it?
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Lol, I see you’re still at it!
Loved the ping, never be afraid to ping me!
To be ........or not............
BD .... you need to do an Elvis on your show!
BD .... you need to do an Elvis on your show!In Vegas? Where you can't swing a cat by the tail without smacking at least two Elvis impersonators on the first turn?
LOL .... well it is novel to us “easties” ...OK I’ll have to rethink this.
Howz ‘bout Jack Handey-isms ... at least I understand them, ya know.
I went to listen to you on Wednesday ... You didn’t tell me you were on Mondays! I’m going to listen tomorrow! Promise!
You are certified nuts....which is why you belong on FR. You’re a treasure. :):):):):)
On my station, our nighttime lineup starts with a pretty damn good doo-wop show that doesn't play just the usual overfamiliarities. That's a two-hour show. Then I'm on for my hour, and I'm followed by a strictly old-time radio program, When Radio Was. It's a good show but it plays too many of the usual familiar cliche shows you always think of when you hear the Golden. Age. Of. Radio. nostalgia crap.
I don't play that way when I arrive at each week's old-time radio segment on my show. (I know you know this but this is for any FREEPers who might be curious to hear me and might be awake at that hour, depending on their time zones, since I'm Pacific time.) All I drop in an old-time radio show or two (I can use two if I have a pair of fifteen-minute programs that are broadcast-worthy sound quality--you'd be amazed and dismayed how many old-time radio shows survive in horrible condition because of the old abused transcription discs---but one if my best one's a half-hour show, such as what I'm going to play this week), on the date they actually aired back in the year (the other OTR shows don't even pay attention to that facet and never play a show on its actual original air date), and except for backselling cast and writing credits if the broadcast itself didn't and I have the information (which I do for most of my collection), I stay out of the way and let a listener hear it not as clanking nostalgia but as living, breathing art.
I have this week's show all written, by the way. I have only to choose the songs for my two music segments (two songs each, two segments a show), edit my script, and gather up and burn my chosen sound effects.
“But ....but .... somehow I assumed you were on five days a week,” ... said in my best blond.
Monday night at 9PM PDT it is ...can you give us all a link, again, to The Kallmanac, please.
I don’t know what the equivalent of “break-a-leg” is for a talented radio personality going on stage live, but you know we all wish you the very best!
Nateman ...that is WONDERFUL! BRILLIANT! [rousing applause!!!] Even to the detail of the shadowy reflections on the water.
Not sure but Godzilla may have some copyright issues with you.
You’ve added so much enjoyment to this thread. Thank you!
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