A tough winter for people and animals

It's been a long, cold winter at Brambleberry B&B. The challenge of winter construction (we are building our winery) has been tough, as we've had to endure water freeze-ups and many delays.
But it's also been hard on the wildlife. The farm's deer have herded up and they paw through the deep snow to try to get to any alfalfa fields.
The deer also eat any hay bales stored outside and are now coming into our yard. Sherry took this photo from our side porch of three deer in the yard munching on a rose bush.
As long as we can keep them from jumping into the back of our pickup truck where we store hay for the sheep, then we can peacefully co-exist. But we're sure that the deer look forward to spring just as much as we do.