Bears, Balls, Birds & Bambi

It was just a thrill to see this morning's trail cam capture of the fawn twins and their mama, and if that was all that I saw today I would have been genuinely happy.  Our home is named "Fawn Haven", and our driveway "Fawn Haven Trail", so the sight of fawns was a joy indeed, one we haven't had in years.

Because it was cool and overcast, I decided to spend some time outdoors with the camera; overcast skies sometimes afford great photographs.  I took one of the balls I bought yesterday and tossed it into the pond. That gave me a few interesting shots!

Walking around the property, I also noticed some apples on one of our trees, and a bunch more on the ground after the storm last night.  Down in the woods, there were a multitude of tiny apples fallen from the old trees, and I just have to believe there would be mushrooms in that area ~ if I had gotten to them at the right time and before the critters found them.  But it gives me hope for next year's morel season...

A short while after coming into the house, I saw Smokey give me the "bear" look, as he was sitting in the garden window.  I looked outside towards the rock and saw nothing.    Note to self:    look up... 
                                                                                                   This looked like the cub who was here last week and got spooked by a chipmunk.  The only thing I can think of that caused him to be afraid today is ... a new orange ball that I had tossed into the brush at the edge of the trail entrance near the Hard Rock Diner!! His location in the tree was over-top and to the right of the ball's location, and he seemed to be trying to get SOMETHING down below to move.  Maybe orange was not such a good color for the new 'toy'??

I watched in awe as he shook tree branches, leaned over to the left, perched on the limb, and in general showed his displeasure at the new "addition" to his regularly traveled trail.

It didn't seem to bother the next visitors to the HRD though ... maybe fawns are not as fearful as newly-liberated yearling bears???!!!

So apparently, all the while I was worrying about the fat doe I called Annie who hadn't had her baby, she was just well fed, and keeping little bucky out of sight♥

So, it's been a lazy day full of fawns and balls, apples, birds and a bear ~  the kind of day that inspires me, leaves me in awe at the amazing area where I live, and reinforces the decisions made to move here 20 years ago...

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I think over again my small adventures
My fears, those small ones that seemed so big
For all the vital things I had to get and reach
And yet there is only one great thing
The only thing
To live to see the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.
         — unknown Inuit

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