Just The Two Of Them

The cheerful hues of the flowers make up for the stress....

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...caused by this one!

Remember the thunderstorm with hail the fawn endured and the fallen tree in the last post. Well, one day the fawn was quietly sleeping in the field with a turkey vulture perched on the fence analyzing the scene! The mother came out of no where to the rescue. Another day, the fawn came screaming out of the woods behind the house, while being chased by 'something'. They ran the length of the field through the high grass toward the cemetery at the end of the drive...a limping mother appeared and was in pursuit...sniffing the ground and searching.

She returned back to the field alone...watched and waited.

Eventually that evening they were reunited...and safe again!

Just the two of them...in the field.

Often though...we see the mother deer with the fawn

and one of her twins born last year...grazing in the field.

The three of them! 

Then one morning through the misty haze...

...a 'second' fawn appeared.

The same thing happened last year...maybe they are kept separate for

survival reasons just after birth and later brought together. 

Just like the fawns last year they roam and play together...

just the two of them....most of the day.

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In hindsight...

maybe that chasing 'something'....was only the second fawn!

At times they are all together....

all four of them....chasing in the field.

The Bluebird house in the field....has new tenants.

Dark blue Tree Swallows have taken up residence!

They will gladly take offerings of feathers for their nest.

The grayer female twirled one like a baton...before

flying off with it, releasing it in the air twice and recapturing

the falling feather in flight...gliding in the air round and

round...then entering with it....in one graceful swoop.

Together they guard their home...

just the two of them...so far!

The baby Bluebirds up by the house have kept their parents busy!

 Over and over they were fed...you can see one peeping out.

I missed the morning they fledged...but hear them in the trees.

A few things I didn't miss were...a downy at the liquid feeder...

a shy squirrel eating leaves, an even shyer baby Cardinal...

a Mourning Dove preening, an odd bee/fly on a Daisy...

a turtle in the drive, a clover eating bunny....

a miniature skull of something and a Snake...

 that fell from a tree with a thud...(along with a squirrel)...

...just a few feet behind my back! 

Random things that I have seen...a few mushrooms...

mostly brown or white and a large fungus of yellow bright..

a broken egg and onion stem, a leaning tree above the ravine

a lost feather from a hawk, a weathering "Scoobie Doo" 

the grove of bamboo with very large stalks...

visiting animals and the cemetery at the end of the drive.

I've posted the heart vine...I'm sure before...

but...the others are new...

 and the strawberry one...is Alivia made!

Some of those strawberry hearts went on our cake!

Mediterranean olive salad dressed pasta and grilled cheese.

Parmesan Couscous was ate with almonds and peas...

along with salmon bisque soup and Parmesan toast. 

Fresh apricots and basil made salads with bite and along

with fresh strawberries...made sandwiches just right! 

On days that are sunny and NOT stormy with rain....

to the front porch or gazebo...meals are taken again. 

It's still raining much more than I wish....

but can't complain....

when the flowers are growing like this.

Rain or shine the deer love to play...

running and jumping...

straight at ME....some days!

They are so active...the above photos are blurry...

but sometimes...they aren't in such a hurry!

Just the two of them....together in the field!

Till next time....

~ ♥ Wanda ♥ ~

Birthdays, Grads and Blooming

Here's the little fawn whose Birthday was May 20th.

This photo may show just how small the fawn was  

on May 21st...a wet cloudy day...for it's first visit.

Late the evening before...

I had viewed the 'soon to be mother' entering the woods by the gazebo...then the next morning it

 tiptoed into my flower garden...and lay between young coneflowers and ornamental grass.

I was spreading mulch later and didn't actually see it leave.

Later that evening...mom was seen nursing the fawn in the field...while another...born last year stood watch!

Mom and the older one left as the fawn lay hidden in a circle of day lilies in the field.

An hour or so later....a severe thunderstorm blew in....

with heavy rain and a downpour of quarter-inch hail.

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From the house...we saw the fawn stand up a few times.

 He/she endured it though....thoroughly drenched...

it just snuggled back in and was still there at dark...ALONE!

The fawn was gone the next morning....Alivia and I searched...but only found a tiny toad which let her pet him and a small rain pond, in which she waded! While walking her home she spied a rabbit and a heart-shaped rose petal....

....but no fawn.

Found this bird's nest made of small twigs and dried grasses with leaves molded to the round bottom lying on the ground. A Robin's hatched egg was under a pine tree...saw a small brown snail clinging to a dying tree and two moths that look like lichen and tree bark, but no little fawn. 

Three hearts and a funny face were found in the woods....

...but still no fawn!

One morning I went out to investigate the results of overnight high winds...the top half of a tulip tree near the shed out back had been brought down...

...and...

there was the little fawn just beside the broken branches!

The broken tulip tree...which is soft wood anyway...had been weakened by multiple woodpecker holes...6 in a row!

This is a much larger tulip tree at the end of the field...

from which we have hung swings in the past.

The ropes have weathered...Alivia would like them repaired!

She wants the Honesty seeds to mature so she can remove the dried outer skin and view the shiny 'money' inside.

The flowers in the woods are mostly green and white at this time. Blackberry, Baneberry, May Apple fruit, Hawkweed and the Waterleaf plants are shown.

Here's the Waterleaf growing on a shady hilltop in the woods.

This is a dead Cedar tree...in the midst of a sea of green...

...it will probably remain upright for years.

Here are trees that 'have' fallen and now nourish fungi of

different earthy shades of color.

Our nourishment has had similar shades of earthy color.

Potato salad, black bean burger, veggie sausage biscuits, peas&carrots with pistachio nuts, spicy chicken and peas, cherry mango tart, iced coffee, chopped salads, fish, baked potato with Greek yogurt, coleslaw and spaghetti. 

Not much color here by the house during this period of time.

Plenty of green 4-leaf clovers to be found though! 

These are past and present photos of

 granddaughter Katie and grandson Grant!

Katie took a photo of the 17 four-leaf clovers she found...and Grant left on his scooter after visiting.

Both Grant and Katie just graduated HS.

Granddaughter Amanda just graduated Wilmington College....

and Monday was little sister Alivia's 8th Birthday!

She celebrated it Sunday with friends at Run, Jump & Play!

Yesterday, Amanda picked Alivia up at school, took her to Barnes and Noble to buy books and then they had dinner at Toot's....just the two of them!

That's the latest news about 4 of the 9 grandchildren!

They're all blooming, some coming of age and on their own and some soon to be!

 The roses in the garden are blooming too...along with the wild ones around the yard that come up on their own!  The wild ones don't bloom all summer though.

Peonies, Mexican Primrose, Scabiosa and wild Milkweed!

Of these....the blue Scabiosa is the only one to bloom all summer!

Early morning skies of blue have been greeting me lately!

 The first things lit by a line of sunshine filtering through the trees in the morning are the gazing ball, the trunk of an Oak tree, a swing in the gazebo..... 

...and this stand of ornamental grass!

Maybe the fawn will come back to it on a sunny morning! 

The fawn has had two more unnerving experiences....

I'll save them for next time!

~ ♥ Wanda ♥ ~