Deer Surprise

 When we lived out in Caspar, in the country, deer were often an everyday occurrence in the yard sometimes as many as three at a time and a few times as many as 5 or 6. Yes, the babies are cute but it can be frustrating when they eat everything that's not behind a fence and sometimes even jump a fence that is 6 or 7 feet high. I did learn though in the 17 years there the plants that they never or rarely eat.
When we moved to Ft. Bragg I naively assumed that deer wouldn't be around. Wrong. I've seen this little buck with velveteen covered antlers almost every day for the last week, jumping fences into yards, scooting along alleys and walking across the street like here. I saw him and a doe near where we live this afternoon. We're close to Pudding Creed, at the north end of town and it is a fairly wild wide area running east and west and like a freeway for traveling animal life. I haven't seen any here but last year a black bear came up from Noyo River canyon a little south of here and walked into the automatic door of the local hospital looking for food. Surprise.

I was out running errands this afternoon and was driving along a street and got a glimpse of this. I drove half a block past and had to turn around and go back and I shot about 20 pictures out my van window of which these are two. What a picture. It was late afternoon and the window was facing west so the late sun was shining in the window, I guess it was enjoying the warmth. The blinds look like this might have happened before. I was really taken with color of the cat in relationship to the blinds and black background contrast. Another gift from my photographic guardian angels.