Isolation Series: The Garden Jester

"The Garden Jester"
11x14 marker and ink on paper

I have had to replant carrots, beets, and lettuce this year because this little critter likes to dig - all the way to China, it seems! Early morning, it pops out of yet another new hole to greet the day. I’ve observed it sniff the air and do a sun salutation. It likes to race and hide under the hosta plants then perch on the fence post to become a garden statue. It has been both chaser and chased when it comes to the prolific squirrels. Resilient, feisty, a comic and pester; Chipmunk is a garden jester.

(Thanks goes to my grandson, who left me with this scribble to make a into a drawing).