The deer seem to love the arrival of spring as much as we do. They rush to eat the flowers as soon as they rear their tiny bud heads. My first year here I was naive enough about the possibility of having lilys in my wild kingdom backyard, that I actually planted one smack in the middle of the flower bed in back, very close to where the deer are in this photo. They were there about five minutes. I'm sure it could be compared to say . . . if Dan were to leave a Hersey's kiss on the kitchen counter. (as if).
We have a sweet lonely Canadian Goose wandering around the meadow next to the woods. There were two, they walked around the grassy areas together. Often they were on the driveway when I was trying to drive out and I just had to wait for them to waddle their fat butts off the road before I could pass. Suddenly there was only one goose. It was sad. Dan suggested we go find a goose someplace and bring it here for this goose. I was disturbed that he could kidnap a goose from it's own home and family. Then, after two weeks of loneliness, suddenly there were two again! But today we were back to one. I was thinking that maybe friends from the gaggle drop in and check on him. Maybe he lost his mate? There are also several fox sneaking around that part of the meadow but I am sure that if a fox was actually a threat to a goose, no geese would be there.
We've had so much rain and every time it rains a lot, like now, we find toads on our deck. Almost like it's just too wet even for them. Last spring I picked up a fat American Toad off (I know their names now having painted a bunch of them recently) our deck and took him down to the creek, thinking he must be lost. But then a few days later, his twin (or maybe him) reappeared so I just left him there. He was gone in a day or so. The frog-singing from the creek is so loud when you're outside you can't hear yourself think. And then there's the cicada. And the sex crazed fox who scream weirdly when mating (Toni and I were watching them from the window).
In the five years we've been here I've seen one turtle, and that was in the first six months. Never again did I see one but Dan did stop his car once on Fox Mill so that he could move a turtle out of the middle of the road. I wonder if turtles and frogs get along? Turtles seem like loners. Introverted. I'm kind of a turtle.
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