Hide in plain sight

From my best count, there are 10 others like her on the place, though it's hard to get them to line up for a group shot.

They play hob with fresh leaves and new plantings, and some days my patience grows thin; but I have to admit there are few things more fun than wandering out on a summer morning and being startled by a deer who's just as startled to see you a few yards away.

One neighbor to the east has put up a deer blind -- that's a camouflaged hunting platform, for the uninitiated in Gomerculture -- at the edge of his fence line one narrow pasture away, facing our driveway.

Hope I don't hear slugs whizzing by (it happened all the time at our place in Wisconsin every fall), because it would be awfully sad if the deer blind spontaneously combusted somehow.