“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ 1749 ~ 1842
Nestled in the milkweed, a majestic yearling ~ a nine-point buck ~ shows off his velvet antlers as a summer twilight falls across Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, on a beautiful late July evening.
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
~ William Shakespeare
~ 1564 ~ 1616
In the softness of a summer twilight, a sweet white-tailed deer doe peeks through the milkweed on a beautiful mid-July evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher’s desk.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817~1862
~ “Walden”
~ originally published August 9, 1854
To me, there’s nothing so beautiful in nature as a summer morning, and Thoreau’s words
seamlessly flow through this image of milkweed basking in the morning sun that I shot on a brilliant early July day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
If we all had more sunny hours and summer days, how much richer ~ and happier ~ we’d all be.
