Deer Salad

Since I have been in "The Pass", I have seen deer up close a few times: munching on lilacs.  That was fine.  That was earlier in the summer, too.  Now that it is August, they are looking for other stuff.  Wednesday they found it. A doe and fawn came by and nibbled around the few flowers I have. Though the delphinium flowers were spit out, the parsley was snipped and missing. Yesterday a doe, looking more haggard, with ribs showing, came by and stayed in the garden. After she left I noticed that she had sampled the Shirley poppies, spit them out, but also my lone artichoke.  While it has barbs on the ends of the leaves, it was gone, too, as were some of the leaves.