#sol23 March 24 The Day the Fawn Settled in My Fairy Garden

I had a totally different post planned for today's 

Two Writing Teacher's SOL Challenge.

Instead, I waited all day to share this real life

Slice of my Real Life...

I hope I can sleep, but I doubt it!

I took the recycling out as the sun was getting ready to rise to the horizon. I noticed the forsythia had started to bloom creating a wonderful yellow wall of wonder.  I noticed a few more daffodils had emerged in full glory.  All this made me smile.

THEN, I noticed the doe with her clearly newborn fawn nestled in my backyard in the area my grandchildren refer to as the Fairy Garden.  I tried to shoo them away to no avail.  Mother got up and walked away but came right back to her baby.  I tried to shoo them away, again, as I headed to the gym. Mother left for what I assumed was a few minutes.  I did not want them eating the daffodils that would be emerging soon. I did not want them to eat the buds that would soon be emerging!  But, realistically, they would most likely take up residence while I exercised,

I thought about this mother and child as I drove to the gym.  I thought about them as I sweated through Aqua-size (yes you can sweat in the water) and strength classes.  I thought about the fragility of their lives so close to the highway.  I thought about the challenge of their homelessness.  I wondered how this mother was providing for her clearly newborn fawn. I thought about that long ago traumatic to me movie, Bambi. I wondered about my own, clearly selfish desire, to force them to move on.  I wondered if they would still be there when I got home.  

The mom was not.  But, the fawn was still laying in the garden. I wondered if the mom had gone for food remembering the appetite of a nursing mom.  I wondered it the mom had wandered onto the highway not far away. 

Now, many many hours later, the fawn is still there and the mom is not. I am not sure I will be able to sleep.