While sitting in the reading room the other day, sometime in the early afternoon, Hannah and I discovered an amazing thing: that there were chipmunks in the lilac tree which blooms in the front garden.

And they were sleeping.

This being one of the cutest things that I have ever seen, naturally, I had to record it. Two little chipmunks taking a bona fide siesta right outside our windows.

They began to stir after a little while, and then started chasing each other up, down and around the branches. I switched my camera to video mode to record it because, seriously, it was SO CUTE.

Then, for a moment, I lost sight of them.

Hannah: “What are they doing?…oh man…we probably shouldn’t be recording this.”