Our fall season has been warmer than usual and I have enjoyed the autumn beauty in our area.
Our unusually warm summer and extended mild fall meant our potted fig tree produced the most figs we've had since moving to Colorado eleven years ago!
When fall arrives, we move the tree into our garage, where it goes dormant until spring. We water it about once a month to prevent the roots from drying out, and it thrives.
Even my wild cosmos flowers did well this year!
One of our favorite activities this fall has been watching our grandson play on his high school soccer team.
They had a very good season!
We always see many deer outside our windows
. They often decorate our lawn!
One day a buck who unfortunately had a wrapped rope swing around his antlers showed up in my backyard. I called our neighborhood open space ranger who told me they were aware and that Colorado Parks and Wildlife came out twice to try to free him, but every time he ran away. The decision had been made that as long as he could eat and walk it was best he was left alone.
...and when he got up I could see it was wound around a hoove!
He could walk, but he had to keep his head lowered to do so. I called the ranger, who said he would contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Thankfully, the rope was eventually cut, and he could walk freely again! There is still some rope on his antlers, but that will fall off when he sheds his antlers in early spring.
Overall, we had a wonderful October, and now I look forward to the possibility of welcoming our first snow this week!
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Beautiful photos! It sounds like you had a lovely fall.
Hello Pat,
Beautiful Autumn colors. I am so glad the rope wrapped around the deer has been cut. Beautiful sky photo and quote. Take care, have a great day and a happy week ahead. Take care, have a great day and a happy week ahead.
Autumn is beautiful in your neck of the woods. Those figs look delicious. They are talking about the possibility of snow here today...
The poor fellow - the rope swing made for an interesting photo, but like you, I'd have wanted to see him freed of his "tiara".
Thanks for trying to help him, and for sharing your photos at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-stroll-through-cemetery.html
What a lovely set of Autumn photos :-)
Have an autumnictastic week 👍
Beautiful photos and good to know the deer has the rope problem solved, well almost!
Fall is so pretty in your area. It's wonderful that you have a fig tree and can eat the figs. It's too bad about what happened to the buck with the rope. Hopefully the rope will fall off. Thanks for the blog visit and enjoy the week.
A lovely set of photos, the Autumnal colours are beautiful, and as for those figs..I'm envious!
Such beautiful photos! Fall is really lovely in your area. Yay for a good fig harvest. So glad the wildlife rangers were able to get a lot of the rope off the buck's antlers.
Love your wild cosmos! So glad the buck is untangled now, poor thing. Thanks for joining in on Home Matters Linky Party! I will be featuring your post this week! #HomeMattersParty xx
I can't believe you get so many deer in your yard! They look so pretty, but I'm sure you can't grow flowers. That's so sad about the rope. I'm so glad they were able to cut it. Visiting from Wonderful Wednesday.
...the deer with rope on its antlers is indeed a sad sight, I wish it well.
Beautiful sky.
I'm glad to read that the deer is safe now. Enjoy November! All the best, Regula
Oh, I`m glad they helped the deer!
Another wonderful contribution to MosaicMonday. Thank you very much for your participation.
There is so much to discover every time and I like to read through the posts at my leisure to appreciate the pictures and text.
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I am so glad that the ranger finally was able to help cut the rope off the antlers on that deer. Thank you for taking care of our wild life.
Lovely figs and so sorry about the poor buck. Hopefully as you say he will shed it with the antlers
Thanks for participating and sharing your post at #52 #WW (Words welcome). See you at #53
I'm glad the deer got free of the rope and can walk around again. What a tragedy if that hadn't happened.
I love all your fall color. Congratulations on grandson's good soccer team.
Lovely to see all of your photographs here ... I do like this time of year :)
So pleased the deer can walk around again, hope all continues to go well for this lovely animal.
All the best Jan
Fabulous fall photos. Happy November to you too!
So glad to hear that the deer got some help.
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Beautiful photos, enjoy the figs ;) I hope that the deer is free now. Have a great week!
Hello, Pat
The fall leaf mosaic is lovely, so many pretty colors.
I've been seeing so many recipes using figs, they look delicious.
Your cosmos is beautiful, love those blooms.
I am so glad the deer had help with removing the rope.
Beautiful sky photos. Love the sky images with the quote!
Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, Happy Sunday! Have a great week ahead. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.
We should all be thankful for folks like you who called for help twice so the deer could eventually be rescued from the rope.
You've probably had snow these last few days. I've seen the winter storm Anya in CO. That poor deer. I hope all of that rope falls off before he gets caught on something. Hugs!
It sounds like you had a wonderful October. I can't believe you have lived there for 11 years! I remember your move! lol Thank you for linking up.
Your fall colors are so beautiful and something to really treasure. (Especially now that I know you are blanketed in a world of white!) And I really do love your deer. On the rare occasions deer enter my yard, it feels like a special gift. I just hope the deer doesn't get strung up on something. Last year when Pumpkin the Deer got a pumpkin lantern stuck on his snout, they had to net him and get it off. It was fascinating and I was glad they didn't need to tranquilize him. I hope this one can work his way out of it. By the way, since blogger turned all of us into no-reply bloggers (hopefully not forever) I don't have your email to reply to say thanks for visiting. Loved your comment!
Lovely autumn colors. So glad the buck got some help.
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