Introduction

Some time ago -- when I was rather busy with other things -- I started a Blog. This Blog has vanished. I suppose not in reality, but virtually, because I don't know how to get at it, or even where it was created. And so I start again; this is not the first time I've started doing things over again.

To start the ball rolling I'll tell you about my morning. I looked out at about 06:00 and saw very little, but enough to observe that the three white tail deer, that usually come to feed on the oats my wife leaves for them, were not there. I was not overly surprised because there is a lot going on around us right now. We've had deer in the garden for a few years. On 20th of December 2007 there were a dozen of them outside the kitchen window at about noon. Since then they've come and gone regularly. I don't know if the local hunters group -- who shoot moose each season -- have killed any of them, but I hope not.

The reason I say I was not surprised is that a few days ago a local man was roaming around in our tiny forest with his Alsatian dog. We saw snowshoe tracks and the tracks of the dog as it followed the deer from the place they usually spend the night, into the nearest neighbor's land. And also another of the neighbors is felling trees -- on a large scale -- many hectares of mixed forest are being clear-cut and the noise and activity may drive the deer far away in any case.

This is a link to some snapshots of the deer taken through a rather dirty window:

http://picasaweb.google.com/don.donwilliams/OutOfTheKitchenWindowThisMorningDec202007#