Deer looking down on us

It was a sunny but fresh Sunday afternoon. We choose to walk up the forest road through the Ferriesgrund - “Fairies-ground” as I like to call that valley. We had seen there the huge family of wild swines and the deer a week ago. Never go out in search for the repetition of the same surprise, we know. So we were walking the other way round. Starting where we had ended. The slope is mounting slowly but definitely. And indeed, even while taking a breath and listening carefully, no sign of a merry grunting party anywhere around in the bushes. Were they having their midday nap somewhere on a sunny freeplace?


Then we decided to mount a steep track right in the direction of the Sohnrey Heights. And, Tsch, there on the top...I just had that reaction time of sensing and pushing the button. No zooming in.
They were three, just standing to look down (“whats coming up there?”) for a fraction of a second. Disappearing in a flash. Ah, there they had taken us by surprise. We have shared something unspeakable. There will come a day this kind of meeting will have a longer duration. We need time and experience to select the appropriate places, higher grounds. A bit like hunters do, but with a radically different consciousness, intention and receptiveness.

We know that during the night and the early morning many animals - also deer - pass through our Forest-”garden”. How thrilling to meet them in our backyard...but for the time being we are so happy to find this simple joy of meeting the deer just around the corner, uphill along the “Fairies-ground”. While the wintersun is lowering through the firs and a woodpecker is hammering his drum roll on the bark. Who wouldn’t feel this power of attraction?