The Lucky Robin ...

“I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

                 ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

                           ~ 1882- 1945

  ~ 32^nd President of the United States of America

                                    ~ 1933-1945

A beautiful robin catches a worm for supper on an early summer evening in late June at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Four Musketeers ...

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

                     ~ Christina Rossetti

                                ~ 1830-1894

Four precious young barn swallows peek over their nest in a barn at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an August afternoon.

The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally uses man-made structures to breed. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures.

Here's Looking At You, Kid ...

“Here’s looking at you kid …”

       ~  Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman

 in the 1942 classic film “Casablanca”

A beautiful white-tailed deer button buck turns to glance across the Jordan Creek as if to say “Here’s looking at you, kid” before leaving to continue his trek through the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a late May evening.