Special things

Isn't this fawn cute! We are still seeing babies around even though nights are getting shorter, fields are slowly changing to gold (not the aspen yet however - I can't wait for that!), and temps are dropping slowly but surely. I have a problem wanting to "help" animals in nature; I need to let everything take its course.

We heard there was a spectacular meteor shower coming. So Lisa, my sister-in-law and best friend, (she's visiting from Texas) and I took blankets, wine, and expectant eyes out to our deck at dark. It's the perfect place to watch - no lights anywhere within sight. Any given night the sky looks like a black cloth with millions of pinpricks shining through. We saw a lot and oohed and ahhed as the meteors streaked across the sky. Stayed up until eleven (which is really late for me!) and heard the coyote chorus too. Unfortunately I don't have a picture to share - really hard to take night sky stuff.