The Early Bird gets the . . . Fawn?

You know how the mind goes . . . can't remember if I've shared this snap with you before, but it's one of my favorites of the girls. Who am I kidding? They're all my favorites!

This is my third year of going out Saturdays to find fawns to snap. I leave the house when there's enough light to snap a picture. I've been going out in July and August, but this year I decided to go out in Jue.

Most of the fawn I find are a month or two old. I've never seen a baby fawn. My friend, Carol, told me last week she'd seen a baby. So my mind started thinking and I decided I'd go out earlier this year. Mom's keep baby fawns hidden for awhile, but I was hoping I might come upon one.

I left home Saturday morning at 5:45 and headed towards the three best neighborhoods I see deer and fawn. There's few cars out on a Saturday morning so I average about 20 to 25 miles an hour through the streets.

And there it was! Nursing in someone's backyard. I stopped and aimed the camera, but the fawn had stopped nursing. I was able to get off six snaps before Mom and fawn were in the woods. What a thrill to finally see a baby fawn.

Only this snap is clear. The other 5 are a little fuzzy. But one is all that counts! What an exciting morning I had! To see a baby fawn and actually get a good snap.

On that note . . .

A newer friend said recently that she didn't know I had wrote two books. I told her I combined them and self published them three years ago. I stopped promoting the book in 2012. Publishing it had been a special journey I'd wanted to take, and I didn't have the ambition to promote it.

I thought, "I wonder if it's still on Amazon?" So I pulled up the website and typed in my name. Sure enough it came up. But what I hadn't expected was how much it was listed for: $999.11! I certainly had a good laugh and had to print a copy of that. So now I wonder, does any one know why Amazon would do that? There must be a reason.

They certainly didn't get their money out of it so maybe it was raised in hopes someone would buy it at that price. Doesn't seem likely. It's a ridiculous number.

Well at least I have a conversation starter! I'm going to frame it!

You can be sure I'll be out this Saturday morning with the birds, hopefully catching a few baby fawn to snap!