OH DEER...

"Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. calm as still water..." -George R.R. Martin

We have deer, coming and going, usually staying. All day. Sleeping in the blueberries. Under the rhodos. In the dirt. Chewing. Snoring...

            Watching...

"A pine needle fell in the forest. A deer heard it..." -Edith Pattou

Always watching. Drinking. Slurping...

Making jelly beans. The licorice kind...

"The two deer ran for the sheer joy of running...

...flashes of sunlight gleaming on their flanks...

...invisible and dark shapes moving through the forest..." -Elizabeth Lim

"Follow the stag, a voice whispered, for he is the guardian of the forest...

Fleeing danger to well-worn tracks..." -Stewart Stafford

"And the deer...

how beautiful they are,

as though their bodies did not impede them,

Slowly they drift into the open

...through bronze panels of sunlight..." -Louise Gluck

Photographs 2026