I stay around home most all of the time in the winter, spending time with neighbors and other friends, doing interior chores and maintenance and upgrades to my home (and the truck and the trailer), helping others here in the community do the same, occasionally heading to a movie or concert with friends, and sometimes heading a bit further afield for a visit with friends in other towns or cities not too far away. I walk around the community where I live most mornings, when the weather isn’t too blustery. I also read a lot in the winter … the library loves me. 🙂
Things are pretty quiet around my home in the winter, nothing special really, and I like it like that. But THIS morning when I opened the blinds, I found a young deer sleeping in the woods just to the north of my house. How sweet is that?
She must have been comfortable there since she kept dozing off.
But, you know how it is when you’re almost asleep, and then there’s an itch that you just can’t ignore.
But then sleep returns. Her eyes would close, her head would bob, then something would make her eyes open again.
Eventually, she got up and turned around and settled back down … and put her head on the ground and then did go sound asleep. I watched her sleeping soundly for more than 15 minutes.
I had intended to go out for a walk, but my front door was on that side of the house. No way was I going to bother her.
So I headed out my back patio door instead …
The view below is of my neighbors’ homes behind my home as I stepped off my patio. Hmm, I hear something, do you? Maybe a bird up in one of those very tall trees? Oh, I think I see it, way up there!
See it now? I’ll zoom in some more. I couldn’t quite make out what type of bird it was.
Oh my gosh, a hummingbird … perched way up high and just chattering away.
I have a neighbor who keeps a hummingbird feeder out all year round, so the local hummers have food in the winter. This particular one must know exactly where that feeder is. He looks like an Anna’s Hummingbird to me, and looks like he has an extra layer of warm feathers this winter. (click on photos to enlarge them)
I then went on my walk around the neighborhood. When I got back home an hour or so later, the hummingbird and that young sleeping deer were both gone. Come on back any time you two; you are always welcome here. 🙂