The preset robots yesterday left a little bundle of tiny wonders on my doorstep, each wrapped in pixels and time. I gathered them up this morning like a handful of postcards from the backyard spirits – an assortment of videos, brief and lovely.

First came the deer, a small traveling band of three or four, drifting through the yard with that quiet authority wild creatures carry. They didn’t hurry. They didn’t need to. They paused here and there, heads lifting, ears flicking, moving like they owned the place. I love how they seem to know the routes that were carved long before our fences and porches arrived, and they follow them still, soft hooves on winter ground.

Then the time-lapse clips… little spells cast to reveal how the sky decided to fold more snow over us. Watching the flakes stack themselves into a slow-motion blanket, sped up just enough to see the logic of it, felt a bit like peeking behind the curtain of weather itself. Hours became seconds. A quiet snowfall became choreography.

What really struck me was how bright it all was. The snow reflected so much light that the night footage looked like mid-morning. The cameras, confused but determined, did its best to adjust, but even then some lights flared like tiny suns, sparking over the pale ground. It gave the whole thing an enchanted quality.  Winter has its own idea of how the world should look, and the camera simply agreed.

Winter is showing off again, and the deer being comfortable enough to stroll through the middle of it.

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