Raptor In The Grass ...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

   ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    ~ 1803-1882

 A red-tailed hawk peers through the tall summer grass on its hunt for prey on a beautiful late August morning at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

A Lowcountry Morning ...

“Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”

            ~ Stonewall Jackson

               ~  1824-1863

The last words of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, who served as a Confederate general (1861-1863) during the Civil War, and became arguably the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, and had an important part in winning many significant battles.

A Great Blue Heron peers through the marsh in the still beauty of a southern fall morning in the Lowcountry just before the fog burns off along the Colleton River in Beaufort County, South Carolina on the first day of November in Dixie.