It’s been three years since I posted a picture of a doe and two fawns in our backyard so I think it’s OK to post another, don’t you?

In the top left, she seems to be saying, “OK, let’s go.” In the top right picture, she’s saying to the straggler, “I said, let’s go!” Finally, “OK, follow me.”

We also have a pair of robins who have built a nest on top of our downspout right behind where I’m sitting in our den to write these blogs.

Daddy Robin doesn’t come by that often, and when he does, he perches outside the nest in full view. Mama is a bit harder to see, but we check on her at least every morning, and there’s the head and beak.

The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!” (Psalm 29.9, ESV)

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. (Isaiah 35.5, 6)

GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. (Habakkuk 3.19, ESV)

And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and … let birds multiply on the earth.” (Genesis 1.22, ESV)

But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you. (Job 12.7, ESV)

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6.26, ESV)