A Kiss For Mama ...

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

       ~ George Sand

    ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist

        ~ 1804-1876

It doesn’t get sweeter than this, seeing a beautiful white-tailed deer fawn and its mama doe in a tender moment a gorgeous late August evening in the park – a honey of a summer sight!  

A Fawn In The Sun ...

   “… I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief …

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

    ~ “The Peace of Wild Things”

     ~ Wendell Berry

      ~ born 1934

   ~ American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic & farmer

I spotted the sweetest sight of summer – a beautiful white-tailed deer fawn – in the late afternoon of a sunlit mid-July day as summer shines its beauty throughout Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Fawns On A Summer Evening ...

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”

         ~ Aristotle

            ~ 384-322 B.C.

It’s always the sweetest sight of summer to see a white-tailed deer fawn, and to see two together is twice the joy!

I captured this shot of brother and sister twin white-spotted fawns on a gorgeous early July evening the park, as sunset was looming and their mama doe stood close by.

The fawn on the left I call Buttons, as I’ve been photographing him since he was a precious fawn, then a sweet button buck and now a beautiful yearling, tossing him many apples, which he loves eating, along the way. His twin sister is with him in this image, though she is usually a bit more shy about posing for the camera.

It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to watch this these sweet fawns grow.