Summertime Deer
I assumed that when spring turned into summer the hungry deer would find plenty to eat in their own woodland homes. But one day this week when I was looking over my little garden, I saw that the tops of three of my seven tomato plants had been eaten off. Rudy, Carolyn's husband, was nearby and I showed him the damage.
"I didn't think anything would eat tomato plants," he said. But it was obvious that something had eaten three of them. "If they don't have more eaten off them," Rudy said, "they will bush out and be better for having the pruning."
We kept looking at the little garden, and then we saw them, faint deer hoofprints. It really was deer, wandering through the summer growth and helping themselves. Today I saw that leaves of a really nice hollyhock have been sampled. I wonder what else they will taste before summer is over. I have this feeling that they will be back.
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