Tuesday 12 August 2008

Deer in the Wheatfield

Not far memory today as nothing has really hit me. So before I forget I'll relate a small but beautiful happening I saw this morning while out with my husband and dog for a walk. The road home is up hill and so narrow a path has been made the other side of the hedge. There is a path with grass beside it and a fence before it becomes a wheat field. It stretches away down the valley and is quite large.

Suddenly my husband saw something in the middle of the field. It was a fallow deer, a large one standing quite still about a hundred yards away. It is quite rare to see them in an open field in the daytime. It took off down the field past us in great leaps and bounds over the wheat. Pausing only once to look at us it bounded off again until it disappeared into the hedge row.

It was beautiful and a memory I will have to keep in my head rather than on a camera.

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