
Scrap metal sphere, Manitou Springs, Colorado, September 10, 2011
I wasn’t able to find any information on this piece online.After a little more research, I found the name of the piece — and, then remembered that I had already used it in a previous post, Pea.
For some time now, I have had a process in place to minimize duplicate image posts in the future. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do that for older posts. For those, I have to depend on memory and/or a search of my blogs, which I didn’t do for this post.

Kaibab squirrel, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, October 4, 2011
Kaibab squirrel (Wikipedia)
The Kaibab squirrel (Sciurus aberti kaibabensis) is a tassel-eared squirrel that lives in the Kaibab Plateau in the Southwest United States, in an area of 20 by 40 miles (30 by 60 km). The squirrel’s habitat is confined entirely to the ponderosa pine forests of the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the northern section of Kaibab National Forest around the town of Jacob Lake, Arizona.
This squirrel is not found anywhere else in the world. In 1965, 200,000 acres (800 km²) of Kaibab squirrel habitat within Grand Canyon National Park and Kaibab National Forest were declared the Kaibab Squirrel National Natural Landmark.

Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 1, 2009