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One bright midwestern morning I was wandering in my gardens and I found this in my front yard.
A few steps more and I noticed this:
...all of the flowers had been eaten off my geraniums. Only stark stems jutting into space were left.
Next I went over to my new Japanese meditation garden, which is basically a large retangle of sand in which 3 large rocks have been placed. The sand can be raked into patterns or erased and left plain. On this day I found imprints.
Aha! a deer.
For many days I tried to stay up until dawn, or wake up at dawn to see the deer that kept foraging through my gardens.
Two of my neighbors asked if I had seen the huge doe in my yard.
Nope.
I went to extremes and bought a camo nose mask. My thinking was if I put on the mask (see pic above), stood downwind, and froze myself so I made no movement, I could get a picture or at least see the offending doe myself.
One morning, about a week ago I did see. It was two does, smaller than the one in the picture one of my neighbors showed me, the one of the deer in my driveway right behind my car.
The deer were figedty. One was staring at the gray angora cat that sits behind the globe arbor vitae and kills my songbirds. Then they started to eat. Oh they are glorious...long thin legs, a good strong chiseled face, and much smaller than I imagined. Not anywhere as huge as a Holstein. And then Whoosh! they both sprung up right over a small shrub. Deer do fly, in a way. Beautiful!
I will get a picture. I am determined to do so. Until then I will let the deer eat my garden. It's their world. They come to the river to drink.
In the meantime you can enjoy this pic from a few years ago. My friend sent it to me. Enjoy!
This pic reminds me of the time last year when my fella and I were fumbling in the woods and I looked up and saw a huge-racked stag watching us. It was rather strange, for him (the deer)...and us...well, at least me.
