It might have just been my imagination, but the stars seemed even brighter this morning. Venus was spectacular as usual and I even saw a couple of shooting stars. It was a routine run in many ways, but a bit unusual in other. Shortly after passing the high school I saw someone's motion detector light come on across the street and about five seconds later three deer came running on a collision course towards me at full speed. I stopped and they passed about ten feet ahead, but I waited for a bit to see if there were any others coming. A minute later some furry little creature scurried across the road in front of me (it might have been a rabbit or a skunk). I was going to turn my headlight on just to give any other creatures fair warning that I was coming, but just about then I got something stuck in the bottom of my shoe that made a very odd clicking noise, loud enough that it would give anything in the immediate area ample warning. When I got into the park there were a couple of animals fighting just a little ways off the path, with sudden loud shrieks and then softer whimpering, following my the sounds of branches breaking. I think it might have been racoons, as I've heard something similar before (it definitely wasn't cats). The rest of the run was fairly uneventful. Legs felt good overall. Temperatures were in the low 50's under clear skies. | 