100 Word Stories - Setting a Scene (Repost from Facebook, 6 December 2009)

With the sun’s rising, the chirps and calls of insects, frogs, and birds rise through the forest. Collectively, the dewdrops lend the grass a velvety glow, resolving into tiny diamonds close up. The sunlight mixes with smoke hanging across the meadow; they become solid liquid vapor, and give the shadows crisp 3-dimensional shapes. A doe and fawn wander out of the forest canopy’s cover into the meadow’s openness. The sharp crack of a breaking twig snaps the silence. The doe freezes, ears swiveling and nostrils flaring, alert for the source of the danger, and the fawn bolts instinctively for cover.

This was in response to the prompt of "Smoke" from the 100 Word Podcast Weekly Challenge #189 (Week Ending 12/5/2009).