The Girls

I'm going to begin this blog out of the love I have found in two female deer the summer of 2011.  I never thought I'd blog about any topic until yesterday when I came across one of them, in my horror, decapitated and lifeless,  alone in the woods.  I later placed baby pink roses on my sweet friend as I mourned.  I felt pain for them and I too felt pain for my loss.  How strange since we never shared more than space together.  We never exchanged words, just looks and body language.  We learn so much from silence, just open your eyes and see things, really see things... my shared visual of their story.  Or shall I say our story.

   See the beauty I was able to experience through the lense of my camera as they trusted me in their space.  As I gained a respect for their struggles and the hardship of rearing of several babies in the woods.  My respect for them is beyond words, my enjoyment when they appeared is priceless.  The story begins with doe number one, I call her Stinky and doe number two is named Broken Leg Stinky. 

 I now want them to wander into your heart.  I hope they may enter your soul through my photography and stay in your memory forever. 

A very pregnant Stinky 

 With my deepest sympathy and love to their family roaming in our woods,   your friend Patty

The new fawn appears August 2011

Stinky loves to pose

Stinky and her Button Buck Stinky

Father to Button...8 Point Mr. Big 

Stinky loves the Michigan apples

Broken Leg Stinky first appears injured with a complete fracture to right leg in late summer 2011.  She was always alone and behind the pack the entire year.

Button Buck Stinky appears now and then as a grown up and on his own in first rut...renamed to Spike Stinky...he stills remembers me from when he was a fawn.  Autumn 2012  

The Midnight Snackers are shy with humans.  They usually appear at dark.

Stinky's new family appears in late September of 2012...two new boys and a lil' girl !

Broken Leg Stinky with her new family,  September 2012.  Her leg still broken but she seems to manage.  She carried these two who are not shy.  

Her 3 babies, she was so proud of them.