You might be saying to yourself, "Hey, she's got a new avatar!"

Even if you're not, I thought I'd explain.  This is a photo of a deer head.

No, really, it's a photo of a deer in a vacant lot full of grass so high the deer head appears to be floating.  And he wasn't alone.  If I can, I'll post the entire photo.  We love it.  It looks like two deer heads floating in the grass.

This photo was taken of the vacant lot across the street from our home.  Lucky us.  We live on a crowded hillside of homes that cling to this part of town called "The South Slope".  (Where do you live?, we get asked.  On the South Slope, we answer.)  The slope is steep - in the last 10 years, our home has slid enough that the front door hangs not quite level.  But across the street, we have a blessed vacant lot.  Where the deer and an occasional raccoon like to wander.  But mostly deer.  They come in from the green belt a few doors down (end of our cul-de-sac), stop to munch at this vacant lot, then they look both ways, cross the street and wander into neighbor Wanda's backyard.  And one day when the grass was really high, they stopped to munch for a long time.  Todd got some great photos.

I had never known anyone named Wanda until we moved here.  Now I know at least two, if not more.  When I was growing up, I had a favorite book from the library called, "Wanda, the Good Little Witch."  Ever heard of it?

So, that's the long, drawn-out story of my new avatar.  Hey, it's better than reading about my thoughts here on Election Day Eve!  You don't really want to hear that, do you?