Today I am going to try and get some better pictures, there are usually about 20 deer in this field every night I go home for the last 2 weeks. They don't seem to be bothered by the traffic either.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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8 comments:
That's a lot of deer!
I'm surprised as this winter has been so harsh.
They seem to know where they will be safe in broad daylight .....
Kristen, who owns all those hundreds of wooded acres you go by each day? Is is the state or the federal govt? or farmers? or misc people with small parcels?
Today I brought my big camera! I hope they are there, probably not since I am prepared!!
Priscilla, there are a bunch of fields that the roads go in between but they used to be for tobacco, the town I work in, Simsbury bought up one of the parcels that was going to be developed, the other couple are still owed by Culbro tobacco and they lease the land to farmers, they grew a bunch of veggies the past few summers, another piece is owned by McClean game refuge and they won't ever be developed because the man that left the land, I think George McClean left it that way. A private farmer leases one too, my friend I mentioned George the farmer. He grows organic veggies.
No deer tonight!! what did I tell ya all???
Interesting! That land sounds safe from development. At first I thought "Tobacco? In the North? I thought that was a southern crop." Then I remembered some family history. My father's father as a young man of 22 enlisted in the a Civil War regiment from CT and on his enlistment papers which I saw at the National archives his occupation is listed as "cigar maker". He was born in upstate NY and something brought him to CT -- perhaps the tobacco industry had a lot of jobs then. It set me thinking,
when I was a kid, the older kids worked tobacco, even my mother, but she wouldn't let my sisters do it because it was a "nasty, dirty job", she called it. Ray worked it, there wasn't much else to do in the summer in highschool back then. We still have tobacco over the border in MA, I am not sure if they still do it in CT. Interesting indeed Priscilla!!
Maybe they only made cigar's here, not cigarettes, the climate is good to grow the big cigar leaves I think.
Wow! Cool! Deer!
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