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Harriet

The pond was very calm today. A pool of ink full of reflections. The weather has been much the same during most of the week. Warm. Intermittent showers trading time with blue skies. Billowing cumulus, slowly floating southeastward like massive square riggers under full sail.

The Hideaway critters seem stricken by the lazy ambiance of it all. A great blue heron joined us yesterday. “Harry”, according to my lovely bride. Though I suspect that “Harry” is comprised, also, of several of his kin. Perhaps even a “Harriet” or two. It fished for a while in the shallows at the back of the pond. Nabbed some of our small finned friends, by the way, before spreading its wings and quietly launching aloft. Cursed mercenary.

Three days ago a solitary fawn suddenly appeared in our front yard . Perhaps six months old, it grazed calmly for about an hour . We were concerned that the little guy had strayed from its mother and gotten lost. Or that its mother had been injured or hit by a car. The family of coyotes that we heard yipping nearby last night could make short work of a fawn that size. The story had a happy ending, however. We later saw the little guy with its mother at the end of our driveway. She had apparently been foraging and had left the fawn in a safe place while she was gone.

Two six point bucks have been showing up nearly every evening to graze on the strip of grass between the ledge and the pond. They generally arrive like clockwork an hour before sunset, have a leisurely dinner and retreat for the evening. Do deer have curfews?

The star of the week was a beautiful 8 point buck who arrived at sunset yesterday. Such solitary bucks are reclusive and generally stay on the move. He appeared from the woods opposite the island as the sun began to set. He waded from about 100 yards away, feeding on pond side vegetation, to within 50 feet of the porch. He then disappeared into the darkening woods.

Two owls, one by the stream down the hill and one up the mountain, generally engage in an argument at sunset. They will soon do so as the clouds, now white against a darkening blue sky, turn pink. And another dimming Catskill sunset quietly lights the sky. Stars.

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