Walt Disney BE Damned…

Who ever heard of a talking mouse or a duck in a blue sports coat. For years Disney’s firms made a killing staring cute animals that all kids needed a carbon copy of before falling off to sleep. Now kids need DVD’s with high definition TV’s or else.

Then Walt made a cartoon about four legged creatures, Bambi and all her relations. Then for some reason the deer population here in the north has grown and grown for who wants to shot Bambi? It used to be hunters in the fall really had their work cut out for then… but no more. They, the deer, are now thick as flies.

New people who moved up here to the woods were at first are over joyed at seeing a baby deer in their yard… until a week later when there was no lawn but a burned of brown area due to over grazing deer. Now we have many areas that are now closed to hunting for there are just as many people living here as there are deer. It seems there isn't an open season on people only in the middle east.

The northwoods is starting to look like Deerfield, Illinois with malls and everything thing the flatlanders left the south to get away from. In general our simple life, progress, has lead us to lose sight on the one thing of meaning and peace(tranquility). No, I don’t mean the lack of war, that would be reasonable. The peace I mean is that of walking in the woods without the rumble of traffic in the distance or at night being able to look up and see the stars without the glow of town parking lights.

There is no holding back "progress" nor the deer that come in the night and mow down Rosebud’s garden. There actually are only two winners out there, the auto body shops from deer hits and the crows that are offered a free lunch on our roadways…