TheBanyanTree: Disappearing Flowers

[Margaret R. Kramer]

With the influx of rain and warm weather, my garden is at its best this
summer.  The flowers are brilliant, the tomatoes are HUGE, and everything is
so green.  At dusk, one night about a week ago, I got out my camera and took
pictures of my lovely garden.

It’s a good thing I did, because the next morning, most of the flowers were
gone, along with my green tomatoes.  The flowers were neatly snipped off at
the stem.

I knew it wasn’t the squirrels, because squirrels are ground raiders.  They’
ll dig up the entire plant and leave the remnants scattered.

I knew it was the deer.  They sneak into our yard after it’s dark, looking
for the easy pickings.  They empty the bird feeder first and then move onto
dessert, the flowers.

This morning Ray called me to the window.  Two does and three fawns were
criss crossing through our neighbors’ yards.  I’m sure they were the
culprits.  But “Bambi” is so entrenched in me, that I have a difficult time
being angry.

Margaret R. Kramer
margaretkramer at comcast.net

http://www.bpwmn.org
Business and Professional Women of Minnesota

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not
with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a
show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw
Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You
may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. .  ~Erma Bombeck