Wednesday, January 17, 2018

A Family Affair

Before the extreme cold set in the deer were frequent visitors to our leaf compost pile and the abutting neighbors arborvitae trees.

The arborvitae trees have look funny for several year now.  They're bald as can be from about 5 feet high and down to the ground.  Everything 5' and above is foliage, nice and dark green.  You see the deer have eaten all the greenage 5' and below - they can't reach any higher.  Ah, however, that's changed with the recent snow storm.  It was a heavy and wet snow that weighed the tops of the arborvitae down to where the deer, even the youngsters, could reach.  Today's there not much greenage remaining.

This youngster is atop the leaf pile -

Here mother and daughter enjoying some now reachable arborvitae -

Oops, I've been spotted -

Mother and two youngster daughters lying down resting -

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