DougGuy
12-01-2020, 01:57 PM
A good story as told by Denise Laura Foshell a Pennsylvania photographer:
No this is not one of my best pictures I ever took. This was taken on our farm in Berks county, and this was taken from pretty far away.... I just wanted to show you the meaning of true strength.
This is Peggy, which my husband has named her, missing the whole front leg. She came to us like this, we do not hunt on the farm, and allow no hunting due to having 14 horses and two pet pigs. We don't know how she lost her leg. She has managed to survive in this world with this terrible handicap. It has made her very shy, she will not come up close like the many others, but stays her distance.
My neighbors have been afraid to shoot her, knowing it would upset us. She is our loner. The other deer we have here, stay away from her. Where I can see two or three mama doe and fawns eating together, Peggy is off in the opposite corner, all alone but for her young. We feed the deer in the winter back in a small hollow in the brush where they bed down in the cold.
But for Peggy, we put out hay and corn where we see her the most. I know the bit we help, may be the most she gets on a cold winter day, when food is scarce. She has twins every year, and she takes care of them as good as any mama deer with four legs. Of all the years we have watched her, there was only one year that by fall, she lost one of her fawns. Where there was once two, then only one.
Many times I can drive my four wheel buggy close to the deer, and they watch me like ok, here she is again...just smile, and just pose and then she will go away.... But Peggy being shy, and to not stress her out, especially when she has young with her... well I do not push it, but stay on the porch and just observe. There is a time to grab that camera, and times to just say no....
This year is the 11th year that we have been seeing her. The courage, and the will to live that this small doe has, is just incredible. It's not always a pretty picture, but it is the heart of the story behind it.... She is one of strong heart.... I am so proud of her, of the determination to not just lay down and give up.
There are many days when my leg I broke badly from a horse riding accident, causes me a lot of pain. I think about Peggy, I go on, and I don't complain. If she can travel this land on three legs, I can keep going with my bad one.... You just get up, dust yourself off, and begin... You got this....
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No this is not one of my best pictures I ever took. This was taken on our farm in Berks county, and this was taken from pretty far away.... I just wanted to show you the meaning of true strength.
This is Peggy, which my husband has named her, missing the whole front leg. She came to us like this, we do not hunt on the farm, and allow no hunting due to having 14 horses and two pet pigs. We don't know how she lost her leg. She has managed to survive in this world with this terrible handicap. It has made her very shy, she will not come up close like the many others, but stays her distance.
My neighbors have been afraid to shoot her, knowing it would upset us. She is our loner. The other deer we have here, stay away from her. Where I can see two or three mama doe and fawns eating together, Peggy is off in the opposite corner, all alone but for her young. We feed the deer in the winter back in a small hollow in the brush where they bed down in the cold.
But for Peggy, we put out hay and corn where we see her the most. I know the bit we help, may be the most she gets on a cold winter day, when food is scarce. She has twins every year, and she takes care of them as good as any mama deer with four legs. Of all the years we have watched her, there was only one year that by fall, she lost one of her fawns. Where there was once two, then only one.
Many times I can drive my four wheel buggy close to the deer, and they watch me like ok, here she is again...just smile, and just pose and then she will go away.... But Peggy being shy, and to not stress her out, especially when she has young with her... well I do not push it, but stay on the porch and just observe. There is a time to grab that camera, and times to just say no....
This year is the 11th year that we have been seeing her. The courage, and the will to live that this small doe has, is just incredible. It's not always a pretty picture, but it is the heart of the story behind it.... She is one of strong heart.... I am so proud of her, of the determination to not just lay down and give up.
There are many days when my leg I broke badly from a horse riding accident, causes me a lot of pain. I think about Peggy, I go on, and I don't complain. If she can travel this land on three legs, I can keep going with my bad one.... You just get up, dust yourself off, and begin... You got this....
272447