Serendipity

Tasty bean greens! 7/8/12 I am still amazed every time I see a deer or another wild animal...they are such marvelous creatures to watch! I have had the good fortune over the past couple of weeks to get some decent shots of some deer that have visited the field across the road from us. I got this gal right before she headed into the weeds, and I didn't know she was there until I was alerted by my brother. 7/6/12 I decided to keep a more frequent watch of the field and was rewarded two mornings later with a mamma doe and her twins. At first, they came out of the weeds calmly...7/8/12 But children must play...7/8/12 Oops...not too sure footed, apparently!  7/8/12 That evening, the two adults were back out, and feeding. Yummy greens!  7/8/12 Alert to sights and sounds...7/8/12 They moved within a small area to eat, never venturing far from the edge of the field.  7/8/12 Here...she sees me but is more curious than a...

chokecherry tree clump Across the road from where I lived, there was a clump of chokecherry trees, not unlike the ones in the photo above. The difference, however, was that these trees were younger and much more plentiful, and had grown in a circle about 15 feet in diameter. Each tree had grown straight up, had no branches until it reached the top, where it then branched and leafed out during the Spring and Summer months. A perfect tree house!   My tree house! The white dot represents where my tree house was... Somehow, in the way that the trees grew...it was like a ring of trees in the center and then an outer ring...giving way to about a 2 foot walkway in-between...and the center of the clump of trees was barren as well. The only modifications I had made were to make 'doorways' into both rings...thus I had my 'tree house'! Even as a child, I had a vivid imagination (obviously!) and I had made certain areas (mentally) into different rooms of my house...