“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life.”
~ L. Wolfe Gilbert
~ Russian-born American songwriter of
Tin Pan Alley
~ 1886-1970
A beautiful trumpeter swan gracefully glides along the pond as a mid-February afternoon segues into evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“… I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief …
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
~ “The Peace of Wild Things”
~ Wendell Berry
~ born 1934
~ American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic & farmer
I came into the peace of wild things when I spotted two whitetail deer button bucks, at right, crossing the Saucon Creek, tinged with the gold of a looming late October sunset, as other deer soak in the beauty of autumn along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania.
“… the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
~ Sylvia Plath
~ 1932 ~ 1963
~ “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”
~ published 1982
Facing the setting sun, a Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly clings to summer ~ my most favorite of seasons ~ in the waning days of August at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
