The Yearling Grows ...

“The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.”

     ~ from “The Yearling”

    ~ published in March 1938 by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

   & adapted into the Academy Award winning film of the same name in 1946

My favorite yearling ~ Buttons, as I call him ~ strikes a cute pose on a spring evening just before a mid-May sunset at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I began photographing Buttons as a precious white-spotted fawn, then a sweet button buck and then a beautiful yearling, until he migrated away in January 2020. Along the way I tossed him many apples, which he loved eating. It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to have watched this white-tailed deer grow.

 

It's Always Summer Somewhere ...

“It’s always summer somewhere.”

     ~ Lilly Pulitzer

       ~1931 ~ 2013

It’s always summer somewhere ~ what a wonderful thought, as summer is my most favorite of seasons!

Kayakers in the distance drift through the beauty of a serene summer afternoon on a beautiful mid-July day on Leaser Lake, in shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.

Leaser Lake’s namesake is Frederick Leaser, an American patriot who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church for protection during the Revolutionary War. His homestead is located one mile north of the lake.

Leaser Lake was built by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for water-oriented recreation and opened for public use in 1971. Lehigh County leases this area from the state and operates and maintains the park. The land north of the lake was purchased by the county in the early 1970s. It is entirely wooded and is used for nature study and as an addition to the State Game Lands No. 217.

 

Muscovy Over The Monocacy ...

 “An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s the bluebird of happiness.”

              ~ Robert Brault

           ~ Freelance writer who has contributed to magazines & newspapers in the United States

                      for over 50 years

Muscovy ducks drink in the beauty of an early November afternoon atop Monocacy Falls before its waters spill into Monocacy Creek on an autumn day at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.