Our trip to Maine was not only a chance to meet new friends but also to get reacquainted with some long lost friends as well. Especially the little eastern chipmunk, a staple of my youth that lived in the forest behind our house in Michigan. At least I remember it as a forest, I was young and the runt of the litter to boot so it seemed pretty big to me.

I was just learning photography at the tail end of my graduate career in the mid-90′s, and chipmunks provided some of my earliest successes as I hiked the trails of Pipestem and Bluestone State Parks in West Virginia. Not surprisingly eastern chipmunks were one of the earliest galleries on my website, but over time I took the gallery down since it no longer met my standards.

We moved to Oregon not long after and since then on every trip back east, I’ve tried unsuccessfully to get better pictures of these little creatures. I had better luck in Maine so it is with great pleasure that I am re-introducing eastern chipmunks to the site, taken during our trip to Maine.

Welcome back little ones!