Take me home, aren't I the cutest Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel you ever saw.

When asked, I told my folks that I hadn't seen any chipmunks out here, only to be proven wrong in the near future. This is not a chipmunk, and the chipmunk resisted being photographed by crawling into a hole. The ground squirrel, I swear, was posing for me at any rate.  He seemed to be doing the fashion model thing.