Savoring The Moment ...

“If you are not filled with overflowing love, compassion and goodwill for all creatures living wild in nature, you will never know true happiness.”

                      ~ Paul Oxton

              ~ founder & director of 

              Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation

My favorite white-tailed deer doe savors an apple in the spring snow on an early April evening in the park in this selective color shot.

I’ve been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns since 2012, and it’s a true joy to me personally and as a photographer.

Blues Singer ...

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”

           ~ Eric Berne

             ~1910 – 1970

        ~American psychiatrist & writer, best known as the creator of Transactional analysis, and as the author of “Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relations” published in 1964

A beautiful blue jay – sometimes called a jaybird – sings while perched on a tree branch on a gorgeous May afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Side By Side ...

“Oh we ain’t got a barrel of money

Maybe we’re ragged and funny

But we’ll travel along singing a song

Side by side …

Through all kinds of weather

What if the sky should fall

As long as we’re together
It doesn’t matter at all…”

              ~ “Side by Side”

                  ~1927

          ~ popular song by Harry M. Woods (1896-1970), now considered a standard. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Star. Woods was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter & pianist. He composed his songs on piano, despite the fact that he was born without fingers on his left hand.

A sweet white-tailed deer doe and her yearling pose for a spring portrait on a beautiful early April evening at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.