I'm sorry

Tweet

Perhaps the California fire is on my mind this morning. Perhaps its that sadness that drove the misery that can be right around the corner into my mind first thing today. Morning commute: traffic super slowed up. Then better. An accident? I drove up a little further and saw a man darting into the two lane highway. He grabbed what I could tell was a good sized deer body and drug it onto the highway's shoulder. Then I saw that a truck sat parked on the shoulder ahead of where the man and his car was. I could see the heat rise from the deer in the frosty air. My community is growing. There's a mixture of lakes and sagebrush here. The deer are trying to survive. More apartment buildings are going up. More houses squished so close to each other, taking over what was corn fields. The deer have no where to go. No way to avoid crossing the highway to get to the cattails and the waterways. So they gamble. The deer gamble cause they must. And at times human and wildlife collide. I am sorry. Sad and sorry. The photo shows a little tin piece that came home with me when I visited a thrift store yesterday. Can you see the rainbow on the upper right corner?