yesterday's delight

Yesterday evening we were collectively Having a Moment, as a household, and so I dragged us outside to Move Our Bodies For Our Stupid Mental Health, and the first five or ten minutes were still quite wretched and Anxiety Everywhere, BUT THEN we saw some squirrels bouncing around in a tree and paused to watch and one of them disappeared.

A did not, I think, actually observe it disappearing -- he was looking at the other one, possibly? -- so I sort of squeaked and flapped incoherently and attempted to point at the relevant bit of tree and --

-- A NOSE APPEARED. Followed, a little while later, by the rest of its face (I was too busy being absolutely enthralled by the game of peek-a-boo a tree rat was playing with me to get photos any earlier in proceedings), and we were Watched Suspiciously until we carried on.

I have great big feelings about how full of wonder the world is.