Deer damaged the apple trees!

While blowing leaves from the far field (soon to be the orchard), I got a closer look at the apple trees.  I'd noticed that the foliage disappeared on them early last week, but hadn't been able to get over to check it out.  Since we'd had rain and wind, I figured that's what caused a lot of the leaves to disappear.

I was wrong.

Upon closer inspection, there's actual damage done to a number of the branches.  Apparently, the rain we've received in the last few weeks washed away the deer deterrent stuff I'd applied to the area.  Or it never worked. 

Regardless, I'll have to try something else because what I've done to this point hasn't worked well enough.