It happened during my bike ride this evening. I was pedaling along checking out the flora and fauna when my attention was captured by a doe standing at the roadside some seventy feet ahead. I was in a sub division so it wasn't like the deer had been camouflaged by a treeline. There was a significant amount of grassy area to all sides of her (except for the street of course). Which made me wonder how I could not have seen the deer sooner.
Apparently the doe was wondering the same thing for she was staring at me as though I had just descended from the heavens.
Deciding the best course of action was just to keep pedaling, I got close enough to see the deer's nostril twitching and her rear flanks tighten. With my own eyes locked on the black saucer-like eyes of the deer I thought perhaps I would get right up beside her.
Twenty feet, fifteen feet, ten... and then the doe simply wasn't there anymore. I never saw her eyes so much as blink, never saw her head turn away from me, yet somehow she was halfway to the distant trees before I could cover those last ten feet.
Had I blinked? I could have sworn not but obviously I had. Yet how, in a single blink, could the deer have covered forty feet?
Though I was disappointed not to have actually made it to within touching distance, I was thrilled to have come so close.
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