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Published: October 9th 2018
Possessive Chipmunk
After all, it is his bench!My tiny off-shoot of the hikers tackling the mountains around Lake Louise opted for a relaxing day walking on the lake shore and a little way up along the creek that feeds the lake. Hundreds of tourists pursued the same route in the warm sunshine shadowed by the tallest trees of the forest. The green/blue glow of the most beautiful lake in the world kept my mind from seeking any other visual excitement.
We sat on a bench to eat an early lunch. Apparently, this bench belonged to a particular chipmunk. The moment we opened our lunches, it jumped on our legs and arms in a life-and-death battle to eat our food before we could. Shouting, hissing, leaping about, waving our arms - nothing scared this scavenger preparing for winter hibernation. We moved on; he didn't. We saw him later in the afternoon munching on minute crumbs, filling his already fat belly.
About half-an-hour later, we sat on another sunny bench near the milky white stream to finish eating lunch. Unexpectedly spending our time people-watching garnered some complements from much younger hikers on our ability to get so far ("at our age" implicit). Little did they know that we
were the laziest Skrastins on this day.
The light changed as the clouds passed over the sun and then passed on. The creek dashed over the rocks on its way to the mud-flats by the lake. Fall colours highlighted grasses by the path. No need to hurry.
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Isabel Gibson
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Good composure and excellent composition
"No need to hurry." Maybe that's something else that goes along with being "at this age." Loved your shot of the Chateau across the mudflats. I've been to Lake Louise but never got to that vantage point. Worth the meander, it looks like.