Nuzzle Under The Evening Sun ...

“When you look a wild animal in the eye, it's like catching a glimpse into the soul of nature itself.”

     ~ Paul Oxton

    ~ founder & director of 

            Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation

My favorite white-tailed deer button buck ~ Buttons, as I call him, at right ~ gets a sweet nuzzle from his twin sister 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.

 

Apple Of The Yearling's Eye ...

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”

              ~ Henry David Thoreau

                 ~ 1817 ~ 1862

A beautiful white-tailed deer yearling ~ who has recently lost the velvet on his antlers ~ eyes the apple I tossed him, which he then enjoyed eating under the evening sun on a warm late September day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

Love Among The Whitetails ...

“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

Bathed in the late afternoon sun of a November day, a white-tailed deer fawn sweetly nuzzles its mama doe along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania.