Chippy's Summer Evening ...

“True compassion is showing kindness towards animals, without expecting anything in return.”

                        ~ Paul Oxton

            ~founder & director of

                 Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation

An adorable chipmunk savors supper and a beautiful late June evening in early summer at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
 

Blue Skies Smiling At Me ...

“Blue skies smiling at me

Nothing but blue skies do I see …”

           ~ “Blue Skies”

        ~popular song written by Irving Berlin 

                   (1888-1989) in 1926

A beautiful blue jay, also called a jaybird, sees nothing but blue skies along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) near the East Penn Township Trailhead in Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania on a gorgeous early July evening.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Hope Is A Roving Gypsy ...

“A day comes in the springtime

When Earth puts forth her powers,

Casts off the bounds of winter

And lights him hence with flowers;

And then by marsh and meadow

And by the silvery sea,

Goes up the red-wings’ chorus:

On-caree!

… Hope is a roving gypsy

With laughter on her tongue,

And blue sky and sunshine

Alone, can keep her young;

And year by year she lingers

Under a budding tree

To join the red-wings’ chorus:

On-caree!”

      ~ “The Chorus”

         ~ 1902

       ~ Dora Read Goodale

         ~American poet

         ~ 1866-1953

With an eye looking up to the sky and filled with the hope of spring, a red-winged blackbird basks in the beauty of an early May afternoon nestled in the grass at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.