Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Muscovy Over The Monocacy ...

 “An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s the bluebird of happiness.”

              ~ Robert Brault

           ~ Freelance writer who has contributed to magazines & newspapers in the United States

                      for over 50 years

Muscovy ducks drink in the beauty of an early November afternoon atop Monocacy Falls before its waters spill into Monocacy Creek on an autumn day at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


 

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Carolina By The Sea ...

 “When we go back to the sea ~ whether it is to sail or to watch it ~ we are going back from whence we came.”

             ~ President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

                    ~ 1917 ~ 1963

             ~ 35th President of 

                the United States of America

                    ~ 1960 ~ 1963

                 & U.S. Navy veteran

         ~ Remarks at the dinner for the

                 America’s Cup Crews

                   ~ September 14, 1962

The splendor of the Atlantic Ocean meets the edge of the shore at Folly Field Beach Park, Hilton Head Island in the Lowcountry of South Carolina on a beautiful late October morning.


 

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Bird's-Eye Morning ...

“The birds sing each morning as they know they have another day to live. Life and mornings are a gift. Learn to enjoy them as the birds do.”

         ~ Unknown

A male Belted Kingfisher ~ the first I’ve ever photographed ~ keeps an eye on the pond on a beautiful late November morning at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.