Catnap

Yesterday afternoon, the urge to catnap caught hold of me as I stood in my sunroom soaking in light after our days of cold weather.

I asked myself: “How would a cat nap?”

The warm sunlight was my answer.

I immediately fetched a soft cover pad from one of my deck chairs and a couple pillows from my sofa.  I flopped everything onto a patch of light my sunroom floor.

Within a few minutes I was blissfully napping in a sort of nest there on my sunroom floor.

I woke something a bit over a half-hour later.

I was not alone. 

After fluttering my eyes to focus, I found a yearling mule deer standing immediately outside the sunroom glass looking in.

“Hey buddy,” I said.

The deer remained there even as I pressed my smarter-than-me-phone against the window for a photograph.

Ta-da!

Sunroom Nest

My Visitor

—Mitchell Hegman