Comfy As You Please In Our Yard

A while back we had a doe and a couple of her yearlings wandering around our yard and one by one they decided to lay down and get comfy. First was this younger one.

Mom was next to settle in.
The other twin is still thinking about it.
When he does finally lay down from a distance it looks like one deer with 2 heads!

I don't mind them so much in the winter because they are beautiful to watch. But I haven't forgot that in the summer they eat their way through my yard eating my flowers one by one.

I haven't forgotten that one year they chewed my Hardy Geranium back so bad it never did pull out of it and bloom again that year.

And ohhhhhh how they love Columbines.

And how this one bloomed pink one year . . .

And purple another year . . .

But I was almost certain that the year I bought it there were 2 colors blooming. I waited until I just suspected I was nuts and that it couldn't bloom 2 colors. Then the year it finally had 2 buds that told me I had been right and it was going to do it - the deer ate them. That was the only time they finally had me in tears because I had been watching this columbine almost every day and then it was gone. Here's a picture from another year when it bloomed purple and pink.

This Cardinal Song Columbine I no sooner got home from the nursery and it was stripped bare. But this was one piece of work flower because it came back with more blooms than it had before they ate it.
There are years they beat me to the lilies. I don't even get a sniff before they're snuffed!

And this one too . . .

My little crabapple tree still hasn't pulled out of it - 2 blooms last year.
In the winter the deer aren't so bad. We can enjoy watching them and taking pictures because there isn't anything blooming for them to eat. And I haven't forgot how furious I am with them in the summer. But it's really hard to stay mad when you see something as sweet as this!