Blitzen taking a break from wooing the does in the neighborhood.

We passed several does and a juvenile deer foraging in the snow and were just about to turn around when our favorite buck appeared alone and silhouetted against the sunset. He only stayed a moment before bounding away.

Clement C. Moore, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas, originally named Dunder and Blixem for Dutch words meaning thunder and lightning. He later changed Blixem to Blitzen for the German word meaning a flash of light.