WOODCHUCK, photo by John Heinz, Jr.

This has to be the best Groundhog Day picture EVER!!I have no doubt in whatever prediction this little guy or gal makes! Forget about old-fashioned shadows – today’s groundhog makes use of sophisticated pine-bough analysis to come up with their forecast!!

Michigan’s official groundhog is Woody of the Howell Nature Center. She will strut her stuff tomorrow morning beginning at 7 AM – all the details on their Facebook event.

View John’s photo bigger and see more in his massive Michigan Animals slideshow (seriously – John is like Dr. Doolittle – check it out!)