Showing posts with label milkweed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milkweed. Show all posts

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Velvet Twilight ...

“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.


 

Monday, July 24, 2023

Peeking Through The Milkweed ...

“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.


 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Ain't Nothin' Like A Summer Morning ...

“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.