Look how big 'Baby Deer's' antlers are NOW! :o)

I looked out the living room window just now and Baby Deer was across the driveway... Just LOOK at how big his antlers have gotten since the last photo I took of him!

(I apologize for the poor quality of these photos but the sun had already gone down when I saw him and, since the flash only works at so far of a distance, of course, the light can't reach a subject that far away on zoom.)

Mama Deer must be so proud!  :^D

Seriously, though, I feel so torn about Baby Deer's fate... It's like those antlers are the badge of his beauty and quite possibly the signature of his death warrant at the same time... I know nature must take its course but I think of him how I first saw him: There on the hillside with his mama grooming him in the fading light...

I hope he'll be okay. I hope he will survive and not be shot by some human with a gun out there to prove his superiority over the "beasts of the field".

Please, Great Spirit, watch over Baby Deer...