“… the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
~ Sylvia Plath
~ 1932 ~ 1963
~ “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”
~ published 1982
Facing the setting sun, a Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly clings to summer ~ my most favorite of seasons ~ in the waning days of August at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“All good things are wild & free.”
~Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817 ~1862
I spotted this honey of a summer sight ~ a sweet, beautiful white-tailed deer fawn ~ enjoying a beautiful August evening with its mama doe in Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”
~ John Muir
~ 1838 ~1914
My favorite yearling ~ Buttons, as I call him ~ shows off his velvet as the eight point buck enjoys a beautiful summer evening in August 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.
