You know you’ve been living in Oregon too long when you actually like photographing wildlife in the rain.

Trained by years of hiking in my Portland, I brought along a pair of rain pants on our visit to the other Portland. They were put to good use on this rainy morning, even laying down in the wet grass I stayed nice and dry. The groundhogs were not so fortunate and were soaked through and through. Their wet fur has a bit of a porcupine appearance to it, but the apparent spines are actually the long guard hairs that the shorter underfur has clumped around, nicely showing off the white tips that give the fur a frosted look.

If you’d like to learn more about this lowland marmot, the University of Michigan has a nice writeup on Marmota monax, the groundhog.