This is my brother John, Uncle John to our children and also to my wife and me, to distinguish him from son John. Uncle John likes animals, a lot. The critter on his head is a baby possum he rescued. The mother possum was hit by a car, I guess while carrying all her babies, and the mother and all the other babies except this one died. John says: “I was telling the possum that he wasn’t on the endangered list and maybe I should let him be, and he said he ‘was too endangered’ so I took him home.” That was about a month ago and the possum is still alive.
He’s a lot cuter now than he will be when he’s grown. This is how John kept him alive:
Light On Dark Water 
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