Wednesday, August 02, 2006

goodbye to a little fawn

There's a deer and her fawn that have been hanging around our house in the forest the past couple months. We saw the mother alone throughout the winter, then in about march or april she suddenly had a tiny fawn about as tall as your knee that we saw bounding and leaping around by the pond like a little kid does. And we've seen them in our neighbor's garden, and one time the fawn even came up on our porch steps in a wobbly bouncy curious way. By now he's more of a teenage fawn, about 2/3 his full size and starting to lose his spots.

But this morning I was out for a walk. Out by the busy road on the other side of our pond I saw a dead deer that had been hit by a car. Then I looked closer and realized it had spots. Then I realized it was probably the fawn from our forest, because this spot was a frequent deer path from our forest to the one on the other side of the busy road.

There's something really heartbreaking about seeing a fawn be born and die. Some kind of loss of innocence in a Bambi-esque way.

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