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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Yesterday was the bestest day ever. Not talking about the WBC thing, though I certainly wasn't letting that ruin my day.
I go to the park every afternoon for a couple of hours. This isn't a small park with just a playground and parking lot. It's an arboretum, and it's huge. There's all of these wooded areas in the back with footbridges over waterfalls and lots of cool stuff like that. I go there to study and practice kung fu and taiji. I often bring my guitar as well. So yesterday I was out at one of the waterfalls doing my moving meditation stuff on the bridge. That got me feeling pretty good, as it usually does. When I was done I walked up this set of log steps to the trail back down to the park entrance. As I'm walking back down I round a corner and come face to face with a young buck (deer.) We stared at each other for what seemed a long time. Then he went behind some trees where I couldn't see him, and a couple of seconds later he crosses back in front of me with his family! It was so awesome! I was jazzed for the rest of the day.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3659 Posts |
Very cool that he felt safe enough to cross with his family. I guess he wasn't afraid of a fellow critter. I never realized deer traveled in family groups.
- Mary Mowder |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Nice!
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2010-10-23 00:30, Mary Mowder wrote: Mama and the babies: frequently; papa, too: almost never. Cool story! |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
One thing, don't get too close cuz a deer can kill or injure you, not in that order usually.
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Chrystal Inner circle Canada/France 1552 Posts |
That was a nice story and upon reading it , one gets the impression that the deer had the impression that you meant him and his family no harm. He trusted you. That's a powerful feeling to get from an animal!
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 184 Posts |
If you would have been only a few seconds earlier you would have passed the buck.
:) Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
It is always an honour to come face to face with the various Lords of the Forest. Thanks for the story.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2010-10-23 01:25, MagicSanta wrote: That's true, one good kick with that dew claw is like a sloppy surgeon, but I also got the feeling from him that he didn't mean me any harm either.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Critter
That was not a buck and his family. It was a buck and his harum. This is mating season, and you were disturbing an intimate moment, which around here is directly followed by hunting season. The only time of year that the doe want anyting to do with the buck is during mating season. The rest of the year groups of deer are all female. Pretty soon those deer, especially the bucks will be in hiding. There is also a plethora of road kill during these two times of year, because the deer get very excited from both the mating, and from the hunting. I hope that my post is not too graphic.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Al, unlike those slutty godless deer in Pennsylvania the deer in Washington are family deer with one wife and their little deers.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
A harem's a family. Ain't you seen "Sister Wives?"
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Santa
Lets at least get our termonology streight. The pappa is called the buck, the mama is called the doe, and the baby deer is called the fawn. Didn't you ever see bambi? I know that you live near Reno, and there are a lot of girls in Reno named Bambi, and Fawn, so don't get those naughty girls confused with the baby deer. Critter It is kinda like sister wives, but in this case all of the sisters want to mate at the same time, and according to Santa it only happens like that with trampy Pennsylvania doe.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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