Hawk's Winter Watch ...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

                ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      ~ 1803-1882 
Regal Red-Tailed Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the winter landscape in search of prey as sunset beckons on a February evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

This bird of prey is the most common hawk in North America.

Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.

October's Party ...

“October gave a party; the leaves by hundreds came –

The chestnuts, oaks and maples,

And leaves of every name.

The sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,

Professor Wind the band …”

              ~ “October’s Party”

                       ~ George Cooper

                             ~ 1840-1927

October gives a party as the morning sun shines on an autumn in full bloom on a beautiful late October day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Winter White ...

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

                  ~Lewis Carroll

                        ~ 1832-1898

                  ~  “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

                                 ~ 1865

                                      &

                   “Through The Looking Glass”

                               ~ 1871 
The first snowfall of the season gently wraps the landscape in the beauty of winter white at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania as sunset draws near. Though the first snow fell December 9, 2017, a few weeks before the official beginning of winter, it blanketed the late autumn day with hushed winter beauty.