I admit it...this morning I chickened out on my morning walk

Take a look at the outside thermometer; that's right, just about 5 deg F. The weather.com forecast had the temperature pegged at 8 deg and a wind of 10 mph, with a resultant chill factor of - 3 deg.

Yesterday the chill factor was about 10 deg higher and I do admit to feeling a tad cold out on the walk then. I walk about two miles, most of it in rural-like surroundings, going down with Uma to the Walmart parking area at the bottom of Chatfield Place then setting out on a somewhat circuitous route. Some mornings I come across the local deer herd; there are seven in the group so far as I can tell although it is not often that one sees them all together.

They have a run that goes from the game reserve up on the hill down through timbered areas keeping mainly to treed areas. You have to look out for them where they are likely to cross the road between two signs that indicate deer crossing. How do they know where to cross, I wonder?