THE BEAUTY OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRY

PHOTOS BY JONATHAN SCHECHTER  JULY/2013 BRANDON TWP. MICHIGAN

                                   

Every now and then citified friends ask me how I can live alone in the country.

My reply:  I am never alone.

These pictures from my meadow; about 150 feet from the door of my house 

establishes the facts on the ground truth of the warmth of nature.  The doe has

 come to know my ways and wanderings very well as I struggled to discover hers.  

And she  has come to trust me.  

Early last week she presented her twin fawns and then paused briefly as they

 checked out the guy on the hilltop. Then, with the curious fawns trotting behind 
continued  to her secluded afternoon resting spot near my barn