While we humans may fancy ourselves leading very exciting lives, spending our days scrolling through social media and texting leisurely, sometimes animals may teach us a thing or two about enjoying the simple things in life—to slow down and smell the roses as it were. Well, one animal photographer from the Netherlands is invoking this simple lesson through his lens; of all the animals, the simplest might very well be the ground squirrel, which Dutchman Dick van Duijn captured on his camera while on summer vacation in Vienna. There are no roses to smell in these pictures; van Duijn, nevertheless, did capture adorable ground squirrels sniffing other wild flowers in idyllic, fantasy-like landscapes from the Viennese countryside. The simple beauty of these scenes is charming. “We had been photographing the ground squirrels since sunrise that day,” van Duijn told The Epoch Times. “On the evening of the second day, that …