Our neighbours this year…

…. have turned up. Or maybe they have been here all the time, only we see them more easily now that the evenings are not dark anymore.  Sometimes I just hear someone walking in the woods on the hill above our house, sometimes I can see something or other moving in there, and sometimes I can see them quite clearly at the far end of the field.

A couple of days ago I was sitting by my sewing machine quilting a baby quilt, and when I happened to glance out of the window, I saw this fellow just outside the garden fence:

He was busy eating, only glancing up now and again to see if something was up somewhere. He has still got some of the winter coat left across his shoulders.

After a while a second animal came out from behind the trees, – this time a doe.

They were both happily munching grass as they lazily moved across the field.

I went back to my quilting, equally happy with my own activity.

Some time later, I saw the doe lying in the middle of some blueberry bushes, ruminating peacefully.

By now it was almost dark, but I managed to catch her in the photo above. I checked several times, and she lay there till it was totally dark, – at least.

I already knew, from obvious signs in the garden, that something, or somebody, had been around for a while.

Now we know who they are.

Eldrid