My Little Fawn

I was seeing this deer a lot in my pasture, thought it odd, especially during the day.

While working in the vegetable patch, there was the baby close to my compost pile. All I could see was the ears, and I was thinking that's a huge rabbit!

It's been a month now.  Mom stays in the woods or the bamboo forest during the day, usually appears at dusk.

I see the baby a lot more than mom.  Sometimes mom is not seen for a few days and with the heat I worried about the fawn, so I filled a kiddie pool and leave apples each day.

It's been a few days now since I have seen her, but the fawn was on the driveway yesterday.  I am constantly peering through the bamboo looking for her.

A few days ago when looking out my living room window, there was the fawn doing zoomies back and forth on the driveway, doing a big loop on my path through the woods.   The photos are foggy, but they were the closest I had been to her. 

I thought maybe she was strengthening her spindly legs in order to jump the fence and finally be with mom.  If she can jump the fence, then I know she will be safe from the coyotes.

She seems content being here.  When I encounter her in the pasture, she stops and watches me, she doesn't run.  I hope to see her with her mom soon. I read they spend two years together.

In the garden, a lot is in bloom and with the heat needs a lot of watering.  I don't have many things left in the pasture garden because of the spring rains washing seeds away and then the deer devoured much of what was left, especially the sunflowers and marigolds.  At least they haven't eaten the tomatoes or pumpkins.

Teasel

Queen Anne's Lace

Mimosa (Chinese Fringe Tree)

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Down by the farmhouse I exposed the stone wall along the driveway and planted Veronica (Speedwell)

Magnolia

Candy Cane Petunias at the Farmhouse

Gooseneck Loosestrife

Last year I dug up these lilies that were in the bamboo forest behind the farmhouse.  They were just a pair of tiny green leaves because no sun was reaching them.  This year they bloomed and they are double ruffled orange and red.

The gardenias were the size of saucers this year, I'm assuming from all the rain and cool weather we had, just like they hydrangeas.

Butterfly bushes and Larkspur

So we had a dust storm from Africa and for a few days it almost looked like a solar eclipse.

This is how the sky looked at two in the afternoon, a thick haze.

We were promised amazing sunsets from the dust, and we did get a few.

In rescue:  This is Angel, a senior chow whose owner could no longer keep her because of her toddlers.  I arranged transport for Angel from West Palm Beach, FL to my friend Marcia in Drums, PA.

Here is Angel with Boss Man who I rescued last year from LA.

This is Chaco, one of the Arkansas dogs that came to my home with his brothers in January and stayed two days with George, Rubi and others.  He got to his new home in TN and one day ran out the door and was seen a few times, but it has now been almost two weeks since we've seen him. I've raised about $2000, hired a tracker, but we have not found him. Saturday I hired a lady to put up flyers in a two mile radius in hopes we get a call.  I have been to TN looking for him myself with no luck.  Now covered in poison ivy, I am taking a break from going up and hoping that someone sees him.

Travels: PERU

Linda sent this photo to me the other day wearing my alpaca hat that I got in Peru, which I still have! Just don't know why I was wearing it inside, but that log cabin we lived in was very cold.  This photo was the catalyst to do a travel post since I don't have any completed projects at home to post. 

Off we go to Lima, Peru with a group from Kennesaw College.

As we neared landing, the plane went over a volcano where there was a rainbow, this photo from the plane window.

We boarded a train that followed the Urubamba River to Machu Picchu where the locals sold their goods to tourists.  Mostly hand woven pieces of colorful artwork.

I bought some plantains . . .

and these four small weavings that I used as placemats.

The bus trip up the mountain to get to Machu Picchu had to be one of the scariest bus rides ever.  Going up was bad enough, but coming down was even worse.  I wish I would have done a lot more videos of the trip.  When we got to the top and rounded the corner to come upon this view, it was something we never could have imagined and there will never be anything like it again.  It is a magical place!

Bob looks pretty thrilled to be here!

We spent days in the ruins.

A few of us near the Inca Trail.

One day we climbed Huayna Picchu, the big mountain you see in the background of the ruins. This is Carl Etheridge, Melissa Etheridge's uncle, and he brought one of her T-shirts and wanted a photo to show her that she was up at the top.

Days later on our way to another city, the plane would not take off due to weather, so we boarded a bus that got us part way there before crashing into a ditch.  We were at the world's highest lake, Lake Titicaca, and we had not acclimated to the altitude, and we were in for quite a night, even after drinking coco tea, which is cocaine.

Some of the group went out on the lake to see the villagers that actually live on the lake, but due to altitude, we were not feeling well and passed on the trip.  It could have been that coca tea!

The local people.

Huyana Picchu in the background, we're getting ready to climb.  Judge Robinson in this photo did not go with us to the top.  Sadly, he passed away from Covid last month in Atlanta.

In the clouds, at the top!  Now the climb down.  

Mom and baby llama.

A lady in Lake Titicaca made these boat village people out of burlap.  

Heading back, a stop in Lima at an artist's street market, I picked up a few watercolors to remember Peru by.

Going through all my bins of old photos reminds me of how much we loved to travel.  In just a few years when Bob retires, we will be back on the road again!