Unexpected

Our house in New Jersey has a big open field behind it, and every year about this time I keep an eye out for newborn deer. I almost always see a fawn hiding in the tall grass or at least semi-hidden in the hedgerow. Sometimes I don't see them until they are a couple of weeks old and out feeding in the field with their mothers. I've been a little concerned that I haven't spied any fawns this year, especially because it's getting late for them to be born, but I keep looking.

We've been in MD since Tuesday for mowing and pea-picking (and pea-picking led to blanching and freezing because we had so many). Our lawn down here is large and open, with one lone pine tree in it, with nowhere for deer to hide. After I mowed I went indoors to get a nice glass of ice water since it was 94 degrees, and then came out on the back porch to cool off a bit. I saw something in the lawn I had just mowed and wondered what I had missed. 

It was a fawn, in a very unexpected place. I wanted to tell the doe she had done a poor job of hiding her child, but it laid there calmly until early evening when its mother returned. Sometimes you can see things where and when you least expect them!