I got home after a long day in what has already been a long week–and here it is only Wednesday night!–and Katherine had kindly painted the fence. She writes: Love people’s inventiveness (is that even a word?) I was turning around to go to a garage sale I missed when I saw this sign on the road to Stone Circle. Just wish I had seen the fawn.
That rolling gravel road climbs up a good sized hill on its way to Stone Circle. The view from the top is very nice, even at night, as it is a very good place for stargazing. The road is heavily wooded to the south, and there are a lot of deer, some of them reckless fawns. Terry Wooten, Bard and Proprietor of Stone Circle, mows the verge and posted the sign to give the fawns a fighting chance to make it to adulthood.
It’s raining and thundering outside tonight. I hope the fawns are tucked under some nice cedars.
Torch Lake Views 
Reggie
June 24, 2010
That is hysterical, Gerry! I would SO love to meet a fawn, reckless or not. 🙂
Gerry
June 24, 2010
In northern Michigan you are pretty much guaranteed to meet a deer. Fawns not so much, but if they appear anywhere it will be on a road like Terry and Wendi’s.
P.j. grath
June 24, 2010
Every year about this time I think of the sign years ago that warned of “baby foxes” near a stretch of M-22, and I always look for them, as if they will reappear. This is the same way I look for deer in places where I’ve seen them before–and then they pop up somewhere new, every time!
Gerry
June 24, 2010
Keep watching. Someday baby foxes will reappear. OK, not the exact same ones, but . . .
As for the deer, they pop up everywhere. I was in Traverse City yesterday, admiring a lovely cottage garden on Elmwood, and learned that deer have been snacking on the flowers. And I thought I had trouble with the rascally chipmunks.
Kathy
June 24, 2010
We have fawn stories everywhere in Upper Michigan, it seems… Hope no one hits those reckless fawns!
Gerry
June 24, 2010
So far so good. Maybe living near all that poetry is a magic charm for the fawns. Certainly works wonders for me.
Karma
June 24, 2010
I just came from reading Kathy’s update about her fawn situation, and now I pop over here and see this. I guess it is certainly fawn season. While I do see the occasional deer here in MA, its a fairly rare sighting, never a fawn. Fox are becoming more common however – saw one trotting along the side of a fairly busy road the other evening!
Gerry
June 24, 2010
Be careful what you wish for . . .
Isn’t it wonderful that every place has its own wildlife? Even when we have the “same” birds or mammals, they are often different, dunno, subspecies? For example, I was astonished to see Western Bluejays in California. They are like my Michigan Bluejays on steroids. Anyway, enjoy the foxes. Pretty things, aren’t they? And they eat practically everything pestiferous.
Fee
June 24, 2010
So basically, Bambi has no road-sense? I love that, though. Even if, as a child, I remember Dad going ballistic when deer got into his vegetable garden!
Gerry
June 24, 2010
No road-sense at all. Your Dad is not a patch on the Kings of King Orchards. They have sworn a blood oath against the deer.
Beth Toner, RN
June 24, 2010
I want to live somewhere where they post signs like that. 🙂 Saw one not-so-lucky one yesterday on my way home. Boo.
Please note my new signature line, made official by a quick check of the PA State Board of Nursing website at 9 o’clock this morning!
Gerry
June 24, 2010
YAY!!! And YIPPEE!! All of us knew you could do it. And you did.
Scott Thomas Photography
June 25, 2010
Love it, Gerry! North woods folks are the best when it comes to watching out for the young ones, people or otherwise.
Gerry
June 25, 2010
Terry and Wendi definitely look out for all the critters that find their way to Stone Circle. I am certainly glad I found my way there.
Anna
June 26, 2010
LOL Reckless fawn! Indeed. We need some of those signs here… and Reckless buck too. Neat capture, and I do like signs of all kinds. 🙂
Gerry
June 26, 2010
Thank you, Anna. What we seem to have here is Suicidal Deer.