Old Vine & Deer

Here's a vine photo I posted a few months ago when we were in the midst of a different season. It clings to barbed wire and a fence post along my neighbor's field, and caught my attention one day as I was walking down the road. The contrast of the wiry tangles against the snowy field in the background was intriguing to me.

This next photo shows how the same vine looked last evening, as the sun was low in the clear sky. The field behind it is freshly plowed, providing poor contrast to the vine, hence the reason I ventured through the ditch to get a photo from a vantage point which allowed the sky to be the background. Wouldn't you know, right as I was crouched down in the weeds aiming my camera at the vine, a pickup drove by on the road. I have no idea who the people were, but they slowed considerably and offered friendly waves, probably also wondering what that crazy woman was up to.

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Once I had climbed back out of the ditch, I continued walking and noticed the neighbor's heifers were suddenly running around excitedly kicking up their heels in their little pasture lot near the road. Squinting, I then saw there were two deer bounding through the field adjacent to the heifers' lot. Hurriedly, I snapped the picture below, which also shows my neighbor in his tractor (far to left) out in his field, most likely oblivious to the bit of excitement I had just witnessed.

(Hopefully, you do know that you can click on the photo to see a much larger image of it.)

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Enjoy your Saturday!!