Amazing Weather

Here we are - approaching the end of November.  Today the temperature hung around 61 degrees F for most of the afternoon.  The other morning (see photographs) the ambient temperature and the ground generated significant fog (enough to hide the deer even).

Now the first weekend of deer season (via shotguns) has officially ended.  I have not seen my babies all day.  I hope they were able to survive the hunter onslaught, but they are surely lying low for now.  Next week will bring another round of shotguns into the neighborhood. 

On the positive side of the hunting equation, a couple of my trees are now showing the effects of the local deer population.  The scrapes are really significant.  I sprayed them yesterday (better late than never) and can only hope for no additional damage.

As I said, maybe the fog will give them additional cover. The forecast is for flurries yet this week.  Crazy weather right now.  I am not a big proponent of "global climate change," and am willing to take this current mild weather as an opportunity to get outside more.  So, yesterday I took my books and sat in my chair, positioned in the sun and out of the wind.  Today I went for a 4-mile run outside - it was fabulous.  What a way to WARM up to the pending Thanksgiving gathering.

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun." ~P.G. Wodehouse