and just stares at me

✝️

so here I am squatting halfway up the trail, locking eyes with a doe staring at me from the entrance to the grassy patch

and eventually I get the feeling

they don't want me leaving yet

so I come back and do some more circling

a whole buncha crows fly around at some point, I could barely see them but I could hear them all around

a woodpecker showed up on a tree I was actively standing under

and if you know woodpeckers, they're skittish little things

that kind of thing doesn't happen, they don't get that close, ever

eventually the deer just walked into the woods and left me standing there

the big doe still stood there, just outside the circle in the woods

still staring at me

so I walked back up the trail to my car

and I'm just about to get into my car when there's a rustling behind me

from a different random forest path I hadn't noticed before

so I go down THAT trail

I didn't see any animals

but I ended up at this little patch of raised ground with tree branches hanging heavy overhead

and there was a whole bunch of stonework

well, "whole bunch" is an exaggeration

there was this stone brick lump sticking out of the ground, looked like the top of a fence or something

and a little stone table

just on this raised bit of land

in the middle of the woods

behind an abandoned building

at that point I took my pictures and left as quickly as I could without running

I ain't even TOUCHING that table

I got back to my car and took off

and as I'm leaving

I see something

that damn cat that started it all

was at the edge of the woods

I saw it look at me

I swear I saw it look at me

You’ve got pics?

yeah but they're on my phone

hang on

Ok I’m ready

Can you give me a ballpark area for this

this was southwest ohio