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Lisa Weikel's avatar

Oh my goodness! What a day you’ve had.

Great public service announcement regarding the fawn. Thank you!

I hope you gave the rodent (aka kitty present) some hair. (I find that easier to offer than tobacco or sage!)

Maria Rodale's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation! I will!

Dr. Wendy Pabich's avatar

I was so relieved to learn the fawn was fine!! And, interested to learn about their curious behavior.

Jeanne Kay Rucker Collins's avatar

Wish I could truly smell that honeysuckle. Here in Arizona it’s too hot for such delicate vines.

Maria Rodale's avatar

There is no perfume that can replicate it!

Jeanne Kay Rucker Collins's avatar

That nor my other favorite midwestern scent that I miss even more, lilacs!!!

Sandra Kay Miller's avatar

That is the position, the baby goats and lambs like to lay out in the field and scare the daylights out of me, thinking they are dead. As a livestock farmer, however, I have learned over the years how to spot the dearly departed in the pasture. Did you catch Paul Greenberg‘s essay in The New York Times yesterday? I thought of your post about the pesticides at the resort when I read it.

Maria Rodale's avatar

No, I didn't! What did it say?

Susie Middleton's avatar

wow!

Maya Rodale's avatar

Love that you called your City Child for help with this :-)

Maria Rodale's avatar

😂😜🧚🏼

Maya Rodale's avatar

“Call the super?”

Martha Bright Anandakrishnan's avatar

This time of year I sometimes come upon new fawns in the grass by the road I run on. It seems most local people know to leave them alone. Rural Pennsylvanians tend to know deer pretty well, unfortunately for the deer in many cases… But let’s not go there! The smell of the air this time of year is intoxicating. I know that this species of honeysuckle and the rosa multiflora are invasives, but they do smell wonderful…

Melina Rudman's avatar

No, it never is. Neither are you. :)

Maria Rodale's avatar

Thanks! ☺️

Pamela Redmond's avatar

I love knowing that about the deer. we have them in LA. rats too — but sorry , I don’t feel bad for that one.

cass marketos's avatar

I’m not gonna like this cracked me the heck up