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the joys of colorado
Sep. 12th, 2007 08:03 ami tend to start work quite early because the rest of my work team is in europe, and it's nice to have some time online with them before they go off for the day. this morning, though, i didn't get started until 7:30 as i'm still trying to work through my jetlag. so at eight i go upstairs and get coffee, and as i'm walking past the front door to go back to my downstairs office, there's a huge eight-point buck, tattered velvet hanging in shreds from his antlers, doing a calm and stately walk past the front door and across the yard. and behind him down the street comes the school bus which has obviously rooted him out of whatever niche or nook he was grazing in. no photo as i never have the camera in quite the right place.
we also have these young twin bucks that are constantly seeking entry to the fenced back garden where the roses and tomatoes reside. they've been around all summer - obvious twins from last years get - and now they have their first racks. still playing and butting at the fence and occasionally each other, but also still living in each other's pockets rather than in the usual solitude of young males. they did get in once last when the neighbor boy left the gate unfastened after mowing and there are terry and i running out the back door and yelling "shoo! shoo!" at these animals the size of ponies. and they just sort of look up at us and keep chewing rosebuds. you practically have to get close enough to touch them before they consider moving.
when we first moved here 16 years ago i thought the deer were scenic. i even went so far - lord forgive me - as placing a salt block in the gully behind the house so that i would see more of them. that was before they ate - to the roots - the rose garden that i planted when we first moved in. now i, like most in the neighborhood, regard them as "yard rats" and lament that city ordinances forbid us to harvest all that lovely venison munching on our chrysanthemums.
we also have these young twin bucks that are constantly seeking entry to the fenced back garden where the roses and tomatoes reside. they've been around all summer - obvious twins from last years get - and now they have their first racks. still playing and butting at the fence and occasionally each other, but also still living in each other's pockets rather than in the usual solitude of young males. they did get in once last when the neighbor boy left the gate unfastened after mowing and there are terry and i running out the back door and yelling "shoo! shoo!" at these animals the size of ponies. and they just sort of look up at us and keep chewing rosebuds. you practically have to get close enough to touch them before they consider moving.
when we first moved here 16 years ago i thought the deer were scenic. i even went so far - lord forgive me - as placing a salt block in the gully behind the house so that i would see more of them. that was before they ate - to the roots - the rose garden that i planted when we first moved in. now i, like most in the neighborhood, regard them as "yard rats" and lament that city ordinances forbid us to harvest all that lovely venison munching on our chrysanthemums.
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