Cuddling As The Clouds Roll By ...

"One touch of nature makes 
the whole world kin."
               ~ William Shakespeare
                                ~ 1564-1616

This female mallard brooding her eight ducklings after a dip in the pond is a sweet sight on a spring evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a white feather and reflections of clouds roll by in the water.

Female mallards brood their young regularly, particularly at night, as they easily chill. Brooding also keeps them safe.


         

Sunset Snuggle ...

"Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature.
It will never fail you."
                    ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
                                 ~ 1867-1959

The light of an April sunset wraps softly
around these precious goslings as the
baby Canadian Geese snuggle at 
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.   
 

Painting The Snow Goose ...

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.

Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

                                    ~ Lao Tzu

                                                    ~ died 531 B.C., China

 

A painterly portrait of beautiful snow goose braving the whipping March winds as the sun sets on a late winter day at

Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Coquette ...

  "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

                    ~ Coco Chanel

                         ~1883-1971                                     

Beautiful mute swan strikes a coquettish pose while gliding along Lake Muhlenberg on a sunlit, chilly spring morning at Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

 

                                                              

Love Flows Sweetly ...

"Sweet spring full of sweet days and roses,
a box where sweets compacted lie."
                                             ~ George Herbert
                                                             ~ 1593-1633

Sweet mallard ducklings swim close to their mama
as a June sunset kisses them with light on the pond
at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Love Is All Around ...

"Love is all around me and so the feeling grows
It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go ..."
                                 ~ "Love Is All Around"
                                          ~ Recorded by The Trogs, 1967

Adorable Canadian Geese goslings form a fuzzy ball of love
as they cuddle in the light of a May sunset at 
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Swan Of A Spring Morn ...

"The swan, like the soul of a poet,
By the dull world is ill understood."
                   ~ Heinrich Heine
                     ~ 1797-1856
                   ~ "Early Poems - Evening Songs"

Droplets of chilly spring waters cascade across a beautiful mute swan as it glides in the morning sunlight like poetry in motion on Lake Muhlenberg, Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

He's So Fine ...

"He's so fine, wish he were mine ..."
                       ~ "He's So Fine"
                                      ~ The Chiffons,
                                                         1963

It seems this white domestic duck may have been
impressed with the other duck's splashing antics, thinking, 
"He's so fine!" on a June evening at 
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Ah, summer love! 

Sweet Life ...

"We're living such a sweet life
Oh what a neat life, making our
dreams come true ..."
                         "Sweet Life"
                                         ~ Paul Davis
                                                       1978

Adorable mallard ducklings are 
just beginning their sweet life in
June at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Wishes, Hopes and Dreams...

Wishes, hopes and dreams is what came to my mind
when I saw these adorable goslings posing recently
at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Lone Wild Bird ...

The only snow goose I've seen this year at
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania
poses on an April day.

Love In The Wings ...

Precious Canadian geese goslings nestle in the wings of their
mama on the day before Mother's Day 2014 at
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Out Here On My Own ...

"Always reaching
For that rising star
To guide me far
And shine me home
Out here on my own."
                ~ "Out Here On My Own"
                              from the 1980 musical film "Fame"

 Canada goose in the windswept waves on a chilly April day
at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Winter Canvas Video

A  winter celebration set to Steve Tyrell's jazzy  "I've Got The World On A String"

On Frozen Pond

Canadian geese gather before sunset recently on the frozen pond
at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Nearness Of You ...

This domestic white duck and white-crested duck share a moment in the
Monocacy Creek, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania this week. Perhaps they
were thinking of the 1938 song "The Nearness Of You," written by
Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Ned Washington.

A Taste of Snow

 

This male mallard duck seems to taste some December snow with the seeds he ate
atop one of the small bridges at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Thrill Of The Soar

Conquering The Falls

Showing Off Their Crests