Thanks Brian.
John, Don... Shhhh please - my wife and daughters are vegetarians. ;o)
Said daughter wanted to know why I hadn't captured the pair in the same
frame.
Had to explain that the pix were shot about 20 minutes apart.
(Maybe next time I could have them make an appointment?)
Rick - looking for his schedule book.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Don Holbrook <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> a little out of season....(unless you're having a summer pig roast).... <g>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:24:51 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [OM] TWO FOR THE MONEY
>
> If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in our
> back yard. There is a small herd of about a dozen deer that are
> frequently outside our fence in back in the neighbor's yard.
>
> Yesterday morning at about 5am I noted a single doe on our side of the
> fence calmly chomping on some wild greenery growing along the fence. It
> was only later in the day that I discovered she had also neatly lopped
> off the tops of two maple seedlings in the middle of the yard that I
> have been nursing along since they first sprouted in spring of 2011.
> They just happened to sprout where my wife and I had determined we
> needed a large shade tree. I built a little wall of rocks to surround
> them and protect them from the lawn mower. I've watered and fertilized
> them and plucked the grass from around them to give them every chance to
> grow. They were very slow to start but a few weeks ago they started
> producing some very nice (and apparently tasty) leaves. Yesterday...
> chomp, chomp... both had all their leaves bitten off at about 8" above
> ground level. Arggh!
>
> The larger one still has two tiny leaf buds each less than the size of a
> BB. I still have hope it will survive.
>
> Venison spiedies anyone?
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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