I believe I wrote you about how distraught I was with the deeply wooded lot next to mine being stripped down to bare ground.That was right on a deer run, where the deer used to com through on their way to my house to chomp on my hostas.

The builder dug a big steep cliff-like hole where they intend to put the basement of the mountain home they will be building there.

Well, this evening as I looked out my window I saw a mama deer and her little baby come into that clearing. They seemed completely bewildered with the change. They ran all around the hole; and finally the mama took one big leap and cleared the cliff and was on the ground in front of the house-to-be.

The poor little baby fawn, could not jump that high. It ran around and around - and finally over to the side where it was flat. Went over and investigated the big machinery with its big basket-mouth. Sniffed all around it - and I ran to get my camera.

I intended to take a picture through my window, so as not to disturb the fawn. I thought it would make a statement picture.

Well, by the time I got back with my camera the little fawn was gone. I could not see the mama anywhere. So I don't know what happened to them.I missed a great pathos picture, darn it.

I was wondering if the building contractor who rented the house next to that lot was looking out of his window. But, by the way he raped the land, I'm sure he would not have sensed he moment - or even realized the
drama of that scene.

I felt a lot of sorrow at what I saw.

Lorraine