Small World

I was pottering around in my garden one beautiful morning, picked up an apple laying in the glittering dewdrop adorned grass, and passing an small basket hanging in the Corkscrew Hazel I let the apple drop into the basket ... And then something happened, which made me stand still for a looong time. The apple dumping woke up some little guys living in the tree (i.e. sleeping in the shell in the 1st photo) and they were some very curious little critters.

{If you click on the pictures they enlarge, please try the 2nd and 3rd picture and see for yourself how charismatic and charming he .. or should I say she ... is}.