stairstep surveillance

With all the comings and goings of a little doxie, sometimes it's easy to forget how long and short tiny chumley really is. Til I catch him playing with a toy, all in the space of a single stair step.

Tiny chumley doesn't play on the stairs often, but I get the feeling he might do so more regularly, now that he realizes that playing on the right step gives him a line of sight he would otherwise never be able to experience. An opportunity to peek out the landing window, to view the squirrels that brazenly climb up the japanese maple as they make their way to the rooftop. To bark, and therefore be.