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The view westward from the crest of the hill above our retirement home outside Fort Collins, Colorado

Kali and I just returned from nine days in Colorado, including four at our retirement house outside Fort Collins.  Over the next few days, I'll feature some of the natural history highlights of our trip, but I thought I'd ease back into blogging with images of what greeted us when we pulled up to our house on the first day.

Look carefully in the shadow to the left of the porch roof support

She moved off when I got a little too close...

...but she didn't go far.

We observed many mule deer during the time we spent at the house.  They're habituated to people and don't take flight like "normal" deer.  There's no hunting in the subdivision in which our house is located, so they deer have grown accustomed to having people around.  It's a good thing that we can't have a garden (because of water use restrictions) because keeping these deer away from a garden would be a big issue.