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Sunday, March 12, 2006

I love this place!

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I've always loved where we live. It's quiet, the buildings are spaced farther apart than your typical apartment complexes, and it's in a beautiful part of town where there are stricter building rules (imagine McDonald's and Wendy's stores in brick structures--they look more like banks than fast food places :-)).

But this morning, something neat happened that made me love our place even more.

I was out on the balcony just enjoying the quiet morning. It was about 6:15 or so. Too early for anyone else to be awake, and the only sound you hear are birds chirping.

I love this time of day. I was looking out on the field right next to the apartment complex when I saw something. I couldn't believe my eyes.

Wild deer!

Okay this may not sound exciting to my American readers, but deer don't exist in Manila. You only see them in zoos and preservations. I grabbed my digital camera and went out there.


How awesome is that!


At this point one of them noticed me (see the one that's looking right at the camera?). I stayed glued to the spot where I was and took pictures from there so I wouldn't spook them. They were looking at me and their tails were flicking. I don't know what that means in deer language, but in dog language that's a good thing, so I hope they didn't see me as a threat.


This was right before they left. Two of them were looking at me intently now. Then they heard a sound (not from me) and they all ran back into the woods.

In hindsight, I should have done two things differently: I should have brought my glasses, and I shouldn't have thrown on a bright white jacket :-). I could've gotten better pictures. I just wasn't thinking of it; I was just too excited about seeing real wild deer in my backyard :-).


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