Beautiful Wednesday Evening

The weather was very comfortably warm and the sky was clear; it was a great evening for ... a walk! I met Linda and we went for a walk on another trail I'd not travelled much. I had been on one part of it before but we also went back into the woods on a nature trail. When we get some snow, there should be a good picture back there. Back on the path, we looped around the pond you see in the foreground of the photo.

With the time change, there is so little time before sunset that our evening walks have nearly become sprints ... okay, not fast like sprints but short and, for us, finished quickly. Being outdoors at and shortly after sunset has allowed us to see more sunsets and twilight feeders. This time out, as we were returning from the walk, Linda put her hand out to signal stop; there, about thirty feet ahead on the right, were three deer nibbling on the tall grasses of a prairie restoration project. They were surprisingly tolerant as I tried to get a decent picture. Eventually everyone tires of the paparazzi and they bounded further out of range.