Hawk's Winter Watch ...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

                ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      ~ 1803-1882 
Regal Red-Tailed Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the winter landscape in search of prey as sunset beckons on a February evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

This bird of prey is the most common hawk in North America.

Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.

October's Party ...

“October gave a party; the leaves by hundreds came –

The chestnuts, oaks and maples,

And leaves of every name.

The sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,

Professor Wind the band …”

              ~ “October’s Party”

                       ~ George Cooper

                             ~ 1840-1927

October gives a party as the morning sun shines on an autumn in full bloom on a beautiful late October day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dixieland Blues ...

“All good things are wild and free.”

                 ~ Henry David Thoreau

                              ~1817-1862

A Great Blue Heron soaks up the autumn sunshine on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.