"Summertime, and the livin' is easy ..."
~ "Summertime"
~ composed by George Gershwin in 1934
for the 1935 opera "Porgy & Bess"
~ performed by such jazz greats as
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong,
Sarah Vaughan & Billie Holiday
It's summertime, and the livin' is easy for my favorite white-tailed deer doe as she grazes in the park on a warm, lazy and lush July evening ... quintessential summer.
I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns since 2012, and it's a true joy to me personally and as a photographer.
"No act of kindness,
no matter how small,
is ever wasted."
~ Aesop
~ born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.
This sweet and adorable cottontail rabbit
is a real honey bunny as it nibbles on some
green grass as a June twilight approaches
at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child
that knows poems by heart."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
~ 1875-1926
A boy and his dad flying a colorful kite
in a sunkissed May breeze looks like
spring by heart at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe casts a watchful, loving
eye on her fawn. Someday this sweet fawn will be
a proud buck, but on this late summer evening in
the park he was happy grazing with his mother.
I've been blessed to photograph this doe and
her fawns for more than two years, and it's a
real joy!
This beautiful white-tailed deer fawn will one day
be a proud buck, but now he enjoys a waning
summer evening in the park.
I've been blessed to photography this fawn's
mama doe and her fawns for more than two years,
and it's a joy!
The expression on this Elk's face seems to say "Welcome To My World"
on a summer afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer fawn poses on a summer evening
just off the Ironton Rail Trail, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
"How green was my valley then ...
and the valley of them that have gone."
~ "How Green Was My Valley"
~ Richard Llewellyn
1939
The Lehigh Valley is wrapped in the lush green
of summer in this view from one of the beautiful
summits at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe wears a happy face
after eating apples in the park on a spring evening.
I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns
for the past two years.
Beautiful white-tailed deer yearling strikes a regal pose
in the park on a summer evening.
I've been blessed to photograph this young buck's
mama doe and her fawns for two years.
"Here we come ... we're the young generation,
and we've got something to say ..."
~ "Theme from The Monkees"
~1966
A whimsical view of two adorable white-tailed deer
fawns as they ran out of the thicket to greet a June
sunset just off the Ironton Rail Trail, North Whitehall
Township, Pennsylvania.
"Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes
an orphan."
~ Albert Schweitzer
1875-1965
I saw this rural scene on an early summer Sunday
afternoon from the Ironton Rail Trail, which loops more than
nine miles through Whitehall Township, the Borough of Coplay and
North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
The corridor was originally home to the
Ironton Railroad 1860-1984.
"I will remember you
will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories."
~ Sarah McLaughlin, 1995
This dandelion puff on a May evening
at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania
brought to mind that wonderful song.
"The eyes are the window to your soul..."
~ William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
Sweet and gentle white-tailed deer doe
shows off her beautiful eyes this evening in the park.
I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her
fawns for the past two years.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe looks blissful
grazing on a May evening in the park. I've been blessed to
photograph her and her fawns for two years, always wonderful
to see. It's an amazing feeling to me when she sees me,
recognizes me and walks over like an old friend!
