Aunt Linda & Uncle Butch's property
late afternoon
very warm, clear, still air
Followed a mule deer down to a clearing, then saw her two fawns, a bit later a stag, while I fiddled with a film malfunction. Birds chitter occasionally but mostly it's still and quiet in the heat.
Pale dry grasses scratch at my ankles, attaching their stickery seed pods as I try to carefully pick my way between deer trails.
Tiny sparrow-sized bird in the branches overhead. Dull colors, long thin beak that it uses to poke into the tree, dark cap, light throat. Hangs onto the branches even upside-down, tiny squeak squeak and it flies off to another tree. (later identified as white-breasted nuthatch)
Getting late, sun shifts lower and the air moves a little, cooling as it blows.
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