“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817 ~ 1862
A beautiful white-tailed deer yearling ~ who has recently lost the velvet on his antlers ~ eyes the apple I tossed him, which he then enjoyed eating under the evening sun on a warm late September day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always be around
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you’ll be in my heart …”
~ “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
~ Stevie Wonder
~1974
My favorite white-tailed deer button buck – Buttons, as I call him, at left, – meets his apple at the same moment as his mama doe in mid-January at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, a site to warm the heart on a winter’s evening.
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.
