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"Life is like a butterfly, you can chase it, or you can let it come to you." ~ Ruth Brown Though he has an intent gaze and orange and black coloring, this is not a tiger, but an Eastern Comma Butterfly.
This beautiful papillon pauses at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a summer evening before once again taking flight.
"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar..." ~ William Faulkner ~1897-1962 ~ Southern American author & Nobel Prize Laureate "The Sound and The Fury" ~ 1929 A high contrast monochrome and painterly view of the Lehigh Valley on a summer evening from one of the beautiful summits at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"How green was my valley then ... and the valley of them that have gone."
~ "How Green Was My Valley" ~ Richard Llewellyn 1939
The Lehigh Valley is wrapped in the lush green of summer in this view from one of the beautiful summits at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe wears a happy face after eating apples in the park on a spring evening. I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns for the past two years.
Thisilldous Eatery provides a great place to stop and sit in the shade on a summer afternoon on Front Street in Belvidere, New Jersey, a charming and historic town on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
"...A million tommorrows shall all pass away Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today." ~ "Today" ~ Randy Sparks New Christy Minstrels 1964
A man paddles through a magical like sunflare during a summer golden hour at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. The lake's namesake is Frederick Leaser, who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church. His homestead is located one mile to the north of the lake.
"When the deep purple falls ... through the mist of a memory you wander back to me ... here in my deep purple dreams."
~ "Deep Purple" ~ composed by Peter DeRose, 1933 ~ lyrics by Mitchell Parish, 1938 Twilight sweeps across the summer sky like deep purple dreams at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Yes, she has them all on the run, but her heart belongs to just one Her heart belongs to Tangerine ..." ~ "Tangerine" ~ Victor Schertzinger & Johnny Mercer 1941
With beautiful tangerine colored wings, an Eastern Comma Butterfly rests on a summer day on a bench in Garett D. Wall Park, Belvidere, New Jersey, a charming and historic town on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
I always love photographing country churches such as Frieden's Evangelical Lutheran Church, which dates back to 1793. The Sunday afternoon sunlight streams on the church nestled in rural Center Valley, Pennsylvania on a summer's day.
"Life is no brief candle... it is a sort of splendid torch ... make it burn as brightly as possible ..." ~ George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
A man on his personal watercraft chases a summer sunset on the golden waters of the Delaware River near the historic Northampton Street Bridge (commonly called The Free Bridge) that spans Phillipsburg, New Jersey and Easton, Pennsylvania.
Ella Fitzgerald's "My One And Only Love" sets the jazzy backdrop for the this celebration of the splendor that is spring showcased in my original nature photos. My greatest joy as a photographer is harmonizing my favorite original photos to music to create a lingering snapshot of the season.
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~1803-1882 Sunset hues begin to steal across the summer sky over Easton, Pennsylvania as viewed from across the Delaware River in Phillipsburg, New Jersey next to the historic Northampton Street Bridge, commonly called The Free Bridge.
The bridge that spans the states was completed in 1896 and survived damage from massive flooding from Hurricane Diane in 1955. It underwent a thorough restoration in 1990.
"But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues ..." ~ "Summertime Blues" ~ 1958
The song says there ain't no cure for the summertime blues, and there ain't no cure for monochrome Great Blue! This Great Blue Heron sits for a portrait in high contrast monochrome on a summer evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just like me they long to be close to you." "Close To You" ~ Burt Bacharach & Hal David 1963
Perhaps these mourning doves were thinking of the song made popular by the Carpenters as they shared a spot on the wire on a summer afternoon in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer yearling strikes a regal pose in the park on a summer evening. I've been blessed to photograph this young buck's mama doe and her fawns for two years.
All that glitters is gold in the night sky during the 2014 Fourth of July fireworks set off from J. Birney Crum Stadium, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Ah, to have fireworks every day!
"Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ..." ~ "The Star Spangled Banner" ~ Francis Scott Key 1814 The waning evening sunlight illuminates The Star Spangled Banner this spring at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY AMERICA!
"Here we come ... we're the young generation, and we've got something to say ..." ~ "Theme from The Monkees" ~1966
A whimsical view of two adorable white-tailed deer fawns as they ran out of the thicket to greet a June sunset just off the Ironton Rail Trail, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
"I memorize moments that I'm fondest of ... And so in these moments with sunlight above My cup runneth over with love ...." ~ "My Cup Runneth Over" ~ "I Do! I Do!" ~1966 Summer streams over the crest of the creek at one of my favorite spots at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, bringing to mind the beautiful words of that song. This moment was captured in a long exposure, high contrast monochrome shot.
"He's so fine, wish he were mine ..." ~ "He's So Fine" ~ The Chiffons, 1963
It seems this white domestic duck may have been impressed with the other duck's splashing antics, thinking, "He's so fine!" on a June evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Ah, summer love!
"Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red ..." ~"Angelus" ~ Susan Coolidge 1835-1905
A view of a crimson sunset ablaze on a hot June evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
