This is the view of our back yard. 
Unfenced, un-landscaped and filled with living lawn ornaments. The deer love to just lie back there and hang out. They do get quite irritated looking when we actually go outside and interrupt them. They forgive us when we toss them apples or something. That doesn't happen too often though. Mostly though, they pick and choose the tasty weeds and occasionally a pear will fall from the tree to their great excitement.
Our new next door neighbors are also fence and landscape-less. They actually hand feed the deer. I'm sure this lowers the deer's opinion of us, but I have a healthy aversion to deer ticks and fleas so I'll just have to resign myself to not being their favorite human.
I do like to watch them. It's particularly fun in the spring when there are babies hopping around. If they would only eat the weeds, they'd be perfect.
-- marcella
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