Monday, February 13, 2023

A Nuzzle For Mama ...

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

              ~ George Sand

        ~ pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist & memoirist

                      ~ 1804 ~ 1876

My favorite white-tailed deer button buck ~ Buttons, as I call him ~ gives his mama doe a sweet nuzzle under the early evening sun on beautiful late April day 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.