This morning I went to Mass at Fatima Shrine. I was extremely early, so I walked over to visit Father Aniello Salicone's grave. There is still no grave marker on it. As I prayed I noticed people walking by, just beyond the trees. I wondered if that was the Upper Charles Rail Trail. I saw a path going through the trees and as I walked over to investigate, in the periphery of my eyes I spotted movement.
It was a mother and baby deer. The mother was huge. Taller than I am. The baby must have been a newborn. It was about a foot tall and skinny, skinny. It looked like it was nursing. I was trying to stand very still, as I took my cell phone out of my purse, to take a picture. The mother deer leapt into the woods-gone from sight. The baby wobbled a second then collapsed. I watched the baby struggle to stand and then it very wobbly walked towards me. I tried to take a picture but its colouring blended in the background, besides it was very shady. IOW, I couldn't get a picture. It kept coming closer and I started walking backwards. I didn't want its mother to reject it because of human smell or something, but then it turned and wobbled into the woods, out of sight.
I didn't hear anything, but I hope the baby did and found its way to its mother.
What a blessing to experience that!
Thank you Father Aniello!
