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International Squirrel Appreciation Day

In honor of this special day about squirrels, I had to share a Flickr gallery I’ve curated from real photographs taken by super talented photographers. I hope the pictures make you smile and send you to those photographer’s pages on Flickr to see even more masterpieces. (NOTE: I’m sorry about the giant size of the gallery slideshow. I couldn’t get WP to accept the Flickr embed code, and I tried putting the width and height in various places in the code to make it smaller, but nothing worked. I’m adding this note in case one of my readers can provide a helpful answer on this issue.)

And, for a little bit of light-hearted news, I found this video of a hero “attack squirrel” that protected his owner’s home…

And, for a final laugh, here’s a collage of 4 images created by Wombo Dream (aka dream.ai) that I made back in 2023 when I was fairly new to the app. My prompts were inspired by pictures of red squirrels, like those above, and some cute red pandas I’d seen. I asked for images of red animals with saddles and with smaller ones riding on the backs of larger ones. These include 2 cute successes and 2 utter failures that truly make me laugh out loud. Here’s to finding joy in the messy mistakes.

January 21, 2026 - Posted by Crystal A Murray (aka CrystalWriter) | AI Image Creations, Collaged, Creativity, Humor, Nonfiction, Photo Studio Pro app, Text on Image | AI, appreciation, creativity, fun, humor, humour, International Squirrel Appreciation Day, Photography, pictures, red squirrels, special day, squirrel, video