Wolf and I went down to Old Hill with Jaxsun this morning. I was there yesterday with the dog and saw a downed tree I wanted Wolf to see. While we were there, we saw two deer: a mama and her baby. Once Jaxsun noticed them, he wanted to chase them, I presume, to eat them. Alas, he was leashed and restrained so no venison for him.

Mama on the left, baby on the right.

Notice how far up their ears were? We watched as the baby noticed us, how its ears went up. It was the same with mama, however, her ears stayed up.

Ever see a tree bent like this?

Here you can see the charred spot where it was hit by lightening. We had a fierce storm the other night which left lots of trees down and the electric out for about 12 hours.

The smell of the wood was so intoxicating one had to put their nose up to the tree. It was almost instinctual to do so.

From the other side of the tree. Wolf stands about 5′9″ so you can see how big this tree was.

The top of the break.

The outside of the tree was warm, rough, and dry. The inside, however, was cool, moist, and smooth. I didn’t know tree innards had grades of color like this one: pink to yellowish to brown on the outside.

Of what is to come in but a few weeks. It was a beautiful walk down there this morning. My plan is to start going down more often now that the weather has started to cool down. And so have the bugs.