Three Things Thursday

Thanks to Nerd in the Brain for the weekly challenge Three Things Thursday:

three things that make me smile: an exercise in gratitude – feel free to steal this idea with wild abandon and fill your blog with the happy

Oh deer!

We live adjacent to a park that is the home of lots of deer. The deer frequently come to visit us because they like to dine on our succulent bushes and flowers. Here are the three that came to graze on my lawn recently:

I’m not a gardener, so I don’t get too worked up when I see them. After all, the deer are not invading our land: We have invaded theirs.

However, I do understand why people who are serious gardeners get so worked up over the deer. This bush, right across the street from where the deer were grazing on my lawn, shows why: The bush should be covered with white flowers all over, but the deer have eaten all around the bush, leaving flowers only in the middle, where they can’t reach:

Crab season

Dungeness crab season has arrived at a local fish market:

I love life in the Pacific Northwest!

Happy week to all.

© 2016 by Mary Daniels Brown