Wednesday, August 21, 2019

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.

Monday, August 19, 2019

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.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

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.