NOT THE DEER I SAW
That silhouette looked powerful and beautiful, and it would have been great to get a picture. Even if I'd been ready with a camera or phone, I wouldn't have been quick enough. It was here and gone.
A couple of days later, it was getting dark when I was coming home from the store. I turned into the driveway, and my car lights illuminated a deer racing across the driveway and yard. It quickly got lost in the woods.
I wonder if it was the same deer.
EPILOGUE: Occasionally, my dog Dixie and I will be walking on the driveway and I'll hear something rummaging around in the woods. Again, I wonder if it was that silhouetted deer.
PS: On July 11, 2023, I was taking out a bag of trash when I noticed a young deer standing in a neighbor's yard. It heard me holler to my wife, but it didn't move; it just looked at me.
I turned and put the bag in the barrel; when I came back, the deer was gone. And my wife came out to see what I was hollering about.
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