A magical sight this morning: whitetail deer grazing in the farmer’s field! Two bucks and a doe. After the bucks left, the doe and I stood and looked at each other for a long while. Such lovely creatures. 🦌

I spoke a bit too soon! She is perturbed, patrolling back-and-forth between them like a little mall cop. 😅

However, she will settle in eventually, because you can only poke at what is (essentially) a moving rock so much before you get bored.

Here’s what I mean about the birds! This is the catbird that dances on the unit and tries to get in the window every morning, but there are also little sparrows, wrens, as well as cardinals & the like that sit in the rhododendron & have been interested in seed that I’ve sprinkled out there before.

Wildlife pond ice ASMR