4 Am in my front yard

In my continueing deer saga. Last night I awoke at 4:00 am to get a drink of water and found this deer eating in my front yard. I have been putting carrot peels peanut butter balls and cut up apple for the two lame deers that I saw a few weeks ago. This healthy one showed up last night but I was glad to see her.

30th Anniversary of the passing of John Lennon

The anniversary of the death of John Lennon is today. I remember the night he was killed. I was walking home from work late. I was with an old friend from school who happened to be working with me publishing community newspapers. We stopped at the Zoo on Osborne for  a drink and saw on the TV what had happened. This always happens to people who are trying to make changes in this world. But it has also been shown that he was became a martyr for peace and a person for our generation to believe in through his words and music. You are sadly remembered and never forgotten.

Yellow birds in my garden early morning

My best woodpecker pic ever

Walking by Gandhi

I was walking at the Forks in Winnipeg and they have placed a statue of the Mahatma walking down a trail by the construction of the new Museum. Gandhi stands as a great man of peace and the very essence of someone who beleived he as one man could make changes to the unjust society he lived in beginning in Africa and than in India. He beleived in non-violence to change what he felt was wrong. He also marched through India and fasted till he was very thin and weak but did not give in until the country was backing him in his quest. This can be a reminder to us all of the way one person can begin change. So never forget that you have a say in the ways of the world. So go forth and be the activist that you know you want to be. 

Good Morning

I have been feeding these woodpeckers and various other birds for quite a few years. It is great to watch them all day. Lately we have been putting out carrots and apple peels for the many deer that pass through our yard every night. Sometimes as many as five at a time. They are very timid and run if they see us watching them. A few days ago I looked up while watching a movie and saw a deer right in the front yard about three feet from our living room window. She was holding up her right leg as if it were broken. She saw us looking at her and she stared us for a few minutes and than she ran on three legs and jumped the fence by our yard. Last night before we went to bed another deer was outside our bedroom window looking for carrots. She began to walk and we noticed her limp. This poor deer had lost half of her back leg and could hardly walk. She lingered for quite a while eating what she could find. She than stumbled away down the driveway and down the street quite slowly but on her way to find more food. Tonight I shall put out some oats and peanut butter mixture for whoever shows up tonight. It broke our hearts to see her limp away in the cold wintery night. Nature can be very cruel to wild animals that have to make there way in the urban world. But at least she may be free from wild dogs and wolves attacking. I pray she may continue on for another night.