Saturday, October 01, 2005
Fall Arrives
A cold front came through late this week bringing with it the cooler temperatures and crisp blue skies that announce the fall season. It's still dry and green, but you can tell things are slowing down. Acorns are banging off the tin roof of the shed. In the early evening, this can startle the deer in the back yard as they graze on them. The does get used to it and after a while, the yearlings quit jumping every time an acorn falls. There have been as many as 6: 3 does and their 3 yearlings. I haven't seen the buck. You have to be quiet while sitting on the porch or they're gone in a flash. They chase each other around. Make a soft rattling bleat kind of like a sheep with laryngitis.
The funniest thing is to watch the deer startle when they happen upon the groundhog. He's just sitting on his haunches munching away. It's like he has some sort of force field around him; he moves and the deer part around him.
They'd all be really cute if they hadn't eaten my garden this year. The deer left only a potted chili plant and a tomato in a container.
I've been awfully busy with meetings and travel these last two weeks. I've been to Morgantown, West Virginia, Champaign, Illinois, and Evansville, Indiana. Carbon sequestration is taking up much of my time. It's so nice to return to the quiet of Bald Knob with bird songs, the fog-shrouded shapes of deer grazing in the yard in the early morning, and a porch just made for sitting.
The funniest thing is to watch the deer startle when they happen upon the groundhog. He's just sitting on his haunches munching away. It's like he has some sort of force field around him; he moves and the deer part around him.
They'd all be really cute if they hadn't eaten my garden this year. The deer left only a potted chili plant and a tomato in a container.
I've been awfully busy with meetings and travel these last two weeks. I've been to Morgantown, West Virginia, Champaign, Illinois, and Evansville, Indiana. Carbon sequestration is taking up much of my time. It's so nice to return to the quiet of Bald Knob with bird songs, the fog-shrouded shapes of deer grazing in the yard in the early morning, and a porch just made for sitting.
