Day 2 1/28/2010

I really should come up with a better title for these blogs but for now they will be just dated. Yesterday I drove up back into the mountain. Our house sits on Cheek Mt. Rd but the paved part ends at our property. My favorite part is the back dirt road that goes way up into the mountain, winds around and ends up out on the highway. Most of my photographs come right from my backyard which is up on the mountain. Yesterday wasn't very cold and the ice and snow had melted so I could get the car up the dirt road. There is a beautiful stream along the road that runs in and out of the mountain laurel. As the road climbs the drop off is a bit scary but I can't ever stop looking down at the stream. Yesterday I noticed a doe laying with her head in the stream her back leg had been ripped open. I don't know if she had gotten caught on a falling tree or what but there she lay lifeless with the look of fear still in her eyes. I didn't know what to do, should of I pulled her from the stream? It was getting dark and I couldn't get down the steep incline so I had to leave her there. I guess I'm an old softy. I love this mountain and how I can get lost in it. I suppose that means it is in my blood.