Window To Friendship ...

“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you.

You have to go to them sometimes.”

                            ~ A.A. Milne

                                 ~ 1882-1956

                      ~from “Winnie-the-Pooh”

                       ~ published October 14, 1926

Adorable cottontail rabbit and chipmunk eye each other as they meet for what may well be the first time as they scurry for food on a summer evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“Winnie-the-Pooh” has always been a favorite of mine since childhood, and the words of A.A. Milne sprang to my mind at this sweet peek into wildlife.

                                       

                                                  

Midsummerset ...

“To see the summer sky is poetry,

though never in a book it lie –  

true poems flee – 

                          ~ Emily Dickinson

                                        ~ 1830-1886

The glow of a midsummer sunset is like poetry in motion – and all too fleeting – as it sweeps and swirls through the clouds on a beautiful July evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Wisp Of A Summer Morn ...

“Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher’s desk.”

                       ~ Henry David Thoreau

                                  ~ 1817-1862

                            ~ “Walden”

                 ~originally published August 9, 1854

To me, there’s nothing so beautiful in nature as a summer morning, and Thoreau’s words seamlessly flow through this image of milkweed basking in the morning sun that I shot on a brilliant August day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

If we all had more sunny hours and summer days, how much richer – and happier – we’d all be.