oh, AWWWW.

[anghara]

Yesterday a deer came ambling by my office window, and at one point she had climbed up onto the paved area right outside my office and paused there, staring directly at me through the glass, and I thought I knew what she was trying to say.

"You're welcome," I said.

And she flicked her magnificent ears at me, and gave me another long soulful look out of those dark and long-lashed eyes, and then wandered slowly away.

Today - just now - she was back... with a baby in tow. I had poured out some cracked corn for the birds and they both seemed to like that - but I went upstairs to get rdeck and tell him they were there so he said, "Throw them an apple."

"They'll just run away if I start lobbing things at them," I said.

"They'll come back," he said.

So I threw down an apple. THey registered its presence and didn't run away, still being busy at the corn; we watched them from the upstairs deck for a while, and then we came back inside and he went to his office and I came back down to mine - and watched the two of them companionably sharing that apple.

They're still here, as I write, nosing around where the corn was, tongueing the salt lick I put out for them.

I love my house.

Comments

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! What a lovely gift. :)

[kittygopounce.livejournal.com]

I hope to experience something like this one day :) You are incredibly lucky.

[navicat.livejournal.com]

Oh, how wonderful!

[eneit.livejournal.com]

what a gorgeous gift, and how lucky they are to have people like you around.

[little-foxy.livejournal.com]

What a display of trust...

You live in a truely magnificant location.

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

I love your house, too, at least your yard. I hope we have a wonderful critter filled yard when we buy a house.

[jeff-h.livejournal.com]

We get deer at our place too. They are very skittish though. They wander up and down the lawn, mostly at night, munching on the grass. We also get raccoons. They come trodding in under the bird feeder and gobble all the seed we put out for the ground feeding birds. This past summer we had a family of five visit. I'd lay on my stomach and watch them--only inches away--through the sliding glass door. My three kitties flanked me and didn't know what to do. We've also had porcupines, skunks, oppossums, pheasants, owls, falcons, hawks, and turkeys. I love living here.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

We have most of those, but I've never seen a porcupine around here, the only skunk I saw was roadkill, and the turkeys manifested halfway across town (but we DID see some). THe rest of the critters you list live in my own back yard, too...