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[caption id="attachment_10409" align="alignnone" width="497"] Not quite the cat's meow, but I respect the thought that goes into any stencil graffiti.[/caption]

Yesterday I saw another version of the stencil graffiti of the Cat on a Pedestal, this time in on the edge of the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

I was making the first leg of my journey westwards from the bottle depot through the alley on the north side of West Broadway Avenue. It was in that lane, west of Columbia Street, that I saw the cat. I'm quite sure it wasn't there even a few days ago.

I watched this squirrel scoot up the utility pole and stop on the lines to have a bite.



Before I could say "secret rendezvous," dessert appeared in the form of a second squirrel -- shameless little rodents! They'll get up to most anything in plain sight, just like, I dunno... raccoons, or something.



After a bit of canoodling, the two squirrels went their separate ways. The first one went back down to ground level the same way it had gone up. Back to work maybe?

Squirrels seem to live by the motto: "out of line-of-sight, out of mind." Maybe they believe they can't be seen by whatever they don't look at? But this squirrel gave me a look that told me it knew it was busted. Click the images to enlarge them.