If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll know how much I like taking pictures of local skunks (see here, here, and here). But like a lot of wildlife they’re hard to get a good picture of because they tend to keep a distance, and for obvious reasons you don’t want to get too close. But this mother skunk and one of her nearly full-grown kids were out snuffling around and were so preoccupied with looking for stuff to eat that they let me get right up to them and take a family portrait. Actually, they didn’t even notice me. They did after I took their picture though, and I backed away quickly.