Birth Of Spring ...

  “I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

                ~ James M. Barrie

                 ~ 1860-1937

             ~ from “Peter Pan & Wendy”

                   ~ published 1911

This beautiful blue robin’s egg nestled in the warmth of a May evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania was once the home of a sweet robin who has broken out of the egg to soar into life, as new life is the heart of the birth of spring.

I Know Why The Catbird Sings ...

“A forest bird never wants a cage.”

       ~ Henrik Ibsen

             ~ 1828-1906

A gray catbird sings its song on a May afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Soliloquy On A Southern Shore ...

“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”

           ~ Pat Conroy

              ~ 1945-2016

A man stands at the edge of the shore of the Atlantic Ocean at Folly Field Beach Park, Hilton Head Island in the Lowcountry of South Carolina on a beautiful late October morning.