Here's Looking At You, Kid ...

“Here’s looking at you kid …”

       ~  Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman

 in the 1942 classic film “Casablanca”

A beautiful white-tailed deer button buck turns to glance across the Jordan Creek as if to say “Here’s looking at you, kid” before leaving to continue his trek through the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a late May evening.

Young Deer Of Spring ...

“Love … it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

                     ~ Khalil Gibran

                         ~ 1883-1931

What a sweet sight to see these beautiful white-tailed deer in spring, as a beautiful button buck and young doe gaze at each other as they graze on an April evening in the park.

Buck In The Falling Snow ...

“… I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief …

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

           ~ “The Peace of Wild Things”

                   ~ Wendell Berry

                        ~ born 1934

         ~ American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic & farmer

A beautiful four point white-tailed deer buck strikes a majestic pose as a peaceful hush sweeps across the field as a midwinter snowfall begins cascading from the sky in this high contrast monochrome shot I captured in the park in the late afternoon of a February day.