While this image may be gruesome, I just had to make Bill stop the car and let Me take the shot. For some reason, this scene struck Me. It was a reminder of how precious life is and how quickly it can change.

I envision this deer just moments before she met her demise, happily bouncing along, about to leap over a fence she has no doubt jumped over hundreds of times before. But in a fraction of a moment and a slight misjudgement on her part, her life took a terrible turn. Just like Mine did recently when I crunched our car after spinning out of control on black ice. I had traveled happily down that road many times and was perhaps too comfortable on it. Lucky for Me, I did not suffer the same fate as this poor deer.

When I look at this image, that barbed wire symbolizes the black ice I hit that day. I hate to imagine the moments after that poor deer got hung up on the wires. Her carcus hanging there reminded Me just how lucky I am to be alive and to never take any moment of our precious life for granted.