FALL

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“NEW BEGINNINGS”Oct 15, ’07 12:16 PM
for everyone

It is Fall once again in West Virginia.

Time  to put away the gardening tools and find

 some new hobbies for the long cold months ahead.

Seems like a good time to turn over a new leaf.

 I forsee lots of interesting things happening here.

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sporadicnonsensedelete reply sporadicnonsense wrote on Oct 17, ’07 Me too 🙂 Great Pic. I drive through the mts. in upstate NY for about 2 hrs every morning. Love this time of year. Always reminds me of a giant bowl of Trix cereal 😉
viccles2004delete reply viccles2004 wrote on Oct 16, ’07 New hobbies? I am gonna wait for those new gardening catalogs to start trickling in at the end of December,lol. ….

…can you consider housework as a hobby?…
veroniquemariquitaedit delete reply veroniquemariquita wrote on Oct 16, ’07 LOL I hear ya Cyn. Thats a great idea about the manure. We keep a large stockpile at all times. (There’s a stable a quarter mile up the road from me.)
I’m quite sure we can find lots of ways to make the winter pass pleasantly.
onemountainheartdelete reply onemountainheart wrote on Oct 15, ’07 Yes it certainly felt like a fall day today. I am not a winter fan and fall just seems to remind me that winter is on the way. I’m working on that attitude though. slight giggle
I’m giving some serious thought to bringing home a lowboy full of composted horse manure and putting a tarp over it and cooking it some more. I don’t want any brumeda grass, blah, nasty stuff to fight. Maybe next year I will get a start of some real beds around here.
I’m not sure what I do with all my time, seems like I’m always busy. I think as we get older we must do more pokin than workin.

THE TRIPLETS

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The birth of twins  in spring to a West Virginia White-tailed deer  …(Odocoileus virginianus) …mama is a pretty ordinary occurance. The birth of triplets, however, is a  less common event… seemingly almost unheard of ( at least in my area.)

Two years ago I had the pleasure of watching triplet fawns grow up right in my back yard.

There was only one occasion when all three were out in full view at the same time- very early one morning.

I grabbed my camera – a  low resolution 1 mp which I had at that time- and started snapping pictures. The light was very dim, but I managed to get several presentable shots as the three youngsters frolicked and played much like a litter of puppies.

While  my husband and I watched breathlessly, two of them engaged in a boxing match.(The third one can be seen on the right of the picture.)

Then he/she joined his sisters/brothers for a rousing game of tag.

I can imagine the one in front saying, “You can’t catch me,!!…..nanner nanner !

In this shot there seems to be a battle of wills going on.  Like …ummmm …I  DARE YOU !!!

We got small glimpses  of the family from time to time for the rest of that summer but never saw them all together again as a group.

We often wondered what became of them and tried hard not to imagine them as someones  dinner.

It was a once in a lifetime experience.