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.
~photos enlarge~
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 ♥ ~
