Not the Belgian embassy’s deer, but some cousins in a Fairfax backyard in 2007.
(James M. Thresher/The Washington Post )
At last, a happy ending amid all the storm-related damage: Belgian Ambassador Jan Matthysen got his deer back.
The embassy residence on Foxhall Road sits on nine bucolic acres that three wild deer — two male, one female — call home. “It’s a marvelous sight in the evening,” Matthysen told us Friday. The violent storm June 29 downed several trees, including one that destroyed a section of the property’s surrounding fence. The frightened animals disappeared for a while (“It was a concern,” he said) until they were located next door on the grounds of the Spanish ambassador’s residence.
Now they’re back home and everyone’s happy — the deer, the ambassador and the embassy staff. Well, maybe not the gardener. “You have deer or you have flowers,” said the ambassador. “We have deer.”
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