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.

Fording A Summer Evening ...

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing page and I could do anything I wanted.”

                         ~ Jack Kerouac

                             ~ 1922-1969

As the summer wanes, a couple ford the Jordan Creek by motorcycle on a beautiful early September evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania in this selective color shot.

For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have enjoyed driving through the creek.

The ford at the preserve is one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph.

By Leaps And Bounds ...

“Born free, as free as the wind blows

As free as the grass grows

Born free to follow your heart …

Live free and beauty surrounds you ...

Stay free, where no walls divide you ...

Born free, and life is worth living

But only worth living

'Cause you're born free.”

 ~ “Born Free”

 ~ title song of the 1966 film

 ~music by John Barry, lyrics by Don Black

In a winter shorn of snow, a beautiful and free white-tailed deer fawn, born free, is growing by leaps and bounds on her way to becoming a yearling as she seemingly sails through the park on a late January evening in the Leap Year of 2020.