“If you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.”
~ African Proverb
A beautiful white-tailed deer doe exchanges a spoonful of love nuzzling with one of her sweet white-spotted fawns during a precious moment I captured in the waning summer on an early September evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania … a honey of a summer sight!
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
~ Maya Angelou
~ 1928 ~ 2014
Bleeding hearts dance in the spring breeze on a beautiful April afternoon along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).
I captured this shot this after setting out from the Cementon Trailhead of the D&L Trail in Cementon, Pennsylvania, part of the Asher F. Boyer Eagle Trail section of the D&L.
Bleeding hearts are shade-loving woodland plants that bloom in the cool of spring. Although they stay in bloom for several weeks, the plants often become ephemeral, disappearing for the rest of the summer if exposed to too much sun or heat. The roots are still alive, though, and the plant will regrow in the fall or the following spring. The fringed-leaf varieties of bleeding heart repeat-bloom throughout the summer.
Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
“When you look a wild animal in the eye, it's like catching a glimpse into the soul of nature itself.”
~ Paul Oxton
~ founder & director of
Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation
My favorite white-tailed deer button buck ~ Buttons, as I call him, at right ~ gets a sweet nuzzle from his twin sister under the early evening sun on beautiful late April day 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.
