Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife where the colour surrounds you

where the colour surrounds you on all sides and the light filters through from above

The open country behind the bird — fence line

He let the season assert itself

the lateral petals with their basal hairs

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife where the colour surrounds youA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This