Showing posts with label George Sand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Sand. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2023

A Nuzzle For Mama ...

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

              ~ George Sand

        ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist

                      ~ 1804 ~ 1876

My favorite white-tailed deer button buck ~ Buttons, as I call him ~ gives his mama doe a sweet nuzzle under the early evening sun on beautiful late April day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I began photographing Buttons as a precious white-spotted fawn, then a sweet button buck and then a beautiful yearling, until he migrated away in January 2020. Along the way I tossed him many apples, which he loved eating. It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to have watched this white-tailed deer grow.


 

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Love Locks Over The Monocacy ...

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

 ~ George Sand

 ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist

 ~ 1804 ~1876

The love locks left by visitors as a symbol of their love line the bridge spanning the rushing autumn waters of the Monocacy Creek on a mid-November afternoon at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 

The Pont des Arts is the most famous for being the Lock Bridge in Paris, France. Visitors to the bridge attach personalized padlocks to its railing and throw the keys away in the Seine River.

 

A love lock or love padlock is a padlock that sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts’ names or initials, and perhaps the date, are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away (often into a nearby river) to symbolize unbreakable love.

 

Since the 2000s, love locks have proliferated at an increasing number of locations worldwide. They are treated by some municipal authorities as litter or vandalism, and there is some cost to their removal. However, there are other authorities who embrace them, and who use them as fundraising projects or tourist attractions.

Monday, February 1, 2021

Love Among The Whitetails ...

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

    ~ George Sand

  ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist

    ~ 1804-1876

Bathed in the late afternoon sun of a November day, a white-tailed deer fawn sweetly nuzzles its mama doe along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania.


 

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

A Kiss For Mama ...


“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
       ~ George Sand
    ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist
        ~ 1804-1876
It doesn’t get sweeter than this, seeing a beautiful white-tailed deer fawn and its mama doe in a tender moment a gorgeous late August evening in the park – a honey of a summer sight!