A reader, responding to my post “I Just Saw a Squirrel Eating an Avocado” (voted yesterday as “the best Slog post of all time”), writes:

You want a squirrel eating exotic fruit? Here is one eating a persimmon. Yes, persimmons grow here and my neighbor’s tree had a bountiful harvest year, appreciated by robins and squirrels. And no, it did not run away and be a small smudge in the distance.

A squirrel eating a persimmon.

A squirrel eating a persimmon. Jerry Joyce

Thanks, Jerry!

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...