I took Tennessee Petunia for her walk this morning. It was very warm and very cloudy, but not everywhere. The sunrise was brilliant to the east, and five minutes later Tennie was under a bush and I was under a tree to escape the deluge. The thunder clap and the lightning up ahead convinced me the tree idea was not such a good one.
We set off for home in the pouring rain. I was crossing Mitchell Blvd. heading east, when a deer bounded across the street on my left. She stopped in our tiny park.
Where did she come from? It would make sense if she lived on the VA grounds, but did she cross the pedestrian bridge over the freeway? Did she come up the Menomonee River, crossing Wisconsin Avenue and Bluemound Rd. on the way? Did she wander across the Miller Park parking lot?
Hmmm….
The deer in Mitchell Blvd. Park
How in the hell did you get that pic? Thunder and lightning, pouring rain, a dog on a leash, and you have the presence of mind to take a picture! Nerves of steel and a journalist’s training, I guess. And now you work with numbers! I don’t know what I think about that.
Nice work, Gretchen. (And I’ve called my dtr “Petunia” since she was a baby.)
So it’s true! A neighbor was telling me the other day that he saw a deer (or was it two, I don’t remember because I could barely believe what he was saying) walking south on 50th St.! He spotted them 3 houses off Bluemound Rd. Deer walking on Bluemound Rd.?! I haven’t seen them yet, but I know my dog will freak out if we do!