Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

what a concept. Noticed these lawn ornaments chowing down on the morning glory – a pest devouring another pest. Both can look good though.

Today it was a breading pair that graced our backyards looking for the good stuff. Usually it is just the doe and perhaps a fawn or two. Hardly see the bucks.

Notice how the horns are velvet, this new growth that will soon be scraped off. 4 points and he still looks good. Urban life for the dear can be very harsh. I have seen several over the years with gashes and broken legs from jumping the fences. If there is food – they will jump and pretty much anything (except thistles) will tempt their pallet.

I rarely see older does – parenting is hard under the best of conditions. And this one is so young and small. I suspect her life will not be as long as the bucks. Though you never know she may beat the odds.

The back yard deer!

The back yard deer! They never cease to amaze me. The young doe and a buck with three points. The tenderness between the two is amazing.

The buck has an eye infection, it looks painful and yet he is seeing something though the eye. He still looks though it – his watchful gaze was noticeable from either eye! It gives him an surreal look – eerie on it’s own.

The Fawn is growing up.

I took my camera today when I walked Loki – it was a delicious fog and would have been silly not to get a photo or two.

As luck would have it the young buck that was the focus of my camera as a fawn was looking to get away from a guy with a camera that was getting a bit too close. The young buck was headed for a very busy street and I mentioned to him that it would not be a good way to go so he turned and ran past the dude with the camera. Cool!

Really he was eyeing Loki on the end of my leash and that helped push him away from dancing in-between impatient drivers on the busy road over the embankment. And I did mange to get his great escape in a photograph or two.

Last I saw of him he was prancing into the condo’s with the dude following him. To be fair the deer do make for good stories and photographs and the dude most likely lives in the condo’s and was out cleaning up the fallen leaves and lo, here comes this young buck. Pulled out the camera to capture the moment on his phone. Luckily the deer here are used to us humans and know it is better to just walk away.