I glanced up from cropping the house photo in the preceding post to discover a deer in our back yard. A deer sighting is hardly unusual but we don’t often host a visit that close to the house from a buck with a six point rack.
I grabbed my handy camera only to realize that its handy memory card was, at that moment, embedded in my handy laptop computer. By the time I snatched the flash card from the computer, crammed it into the camera, and checked for the deer, he had leisurely sauntered into the woods. Once outside the house, I went into my Daniel Boone imitation, but the closest I could get to the deer was 30 yards, well beyond my pocket camera’s optimum range. Despite the distance, the surrounding woods, and my rudimentary photography skills I was able to snap this photo, the graphic quality of which qualifies, if I say so myself, for a rating of “unacceptable – unless I’ve put a llot of time and effort into it already.”
Where’s The Darn Deer?
If one thinks of this as one of those visual puzzles and squints with one eye while loosening the focus on the other, simultaneously clicking his or her heels together and repeating “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, … ,” the deer is, I think, evident, but the rack is too well camouflaged by the brush to be discernible.
And folks wonder why I never get anything done.1
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That’s nice! My parents used to get kangaroos on the lawn occasionally – they lived in Canberra, the national capital, which is surrounded by great swathes of bush (or forest, as you quaint Americans call it.)
It’s generally a bad sign, I think, meaning their natural habitat is getting too stressed, or there isn’t enough water; or otherwise they’re just too tame, which in the US – you know with all the guns and stuff – is probably also a bad sign. CUte, though.
An animal the color of brush, with a bunch of pointy things on its head that look like tree branches. So you can’t off a good shot, let alone a picture. Is there anything more annoying?