Down the Rainbow Bridge's Road

I'm looking out my window onto an ice-glazed driveway, grateful I don't have to go anywhere for a couple of days.  (Now don't go worryin', there's another way in and out!!)  The ice is mostly of my own doing ~ I invite a small herd of deer and a flock of turkeys to dine at the driveway daily, because it's too hard for me to get to the feeding rock by this time of winter. And this is when the critters need it most.

From the perch in my sunny west window, I am watching deer and turkey in the woods below.  Some are bedded down, some chewing on sappling and shrub limbs.  Nourishment is scarce, and so I feed them.  But in spirit, it is they who feed me.

Have you ever seen a tiny, newborn fawn? I did, once, from this window. When Mama deer walked away, I grabbed the camera and slipped out the door, tiptoeing barefoot across the gravel driveway onto the grass, to a spot a few feet away from where the baby had been birthed.  I got a quiet few snapshots and tiptoed backwards, away.  I need to go looking for those pictures... It's what prompted the name for our driveway/road when the new 911 system insisted. Fawn Haven Trail.


I am undeniably human.  I complain, I know.  But when I look outside my windows and see the beauty that surrounds me, I am grateful to be here. To be alive, to be able to SEE.  To be able to share my pictures and my thoughts. I have been so richly blessed.

When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us ~ Arapaho Proverb

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