“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ 1803 ~ 1882
Basking in the evening sun, a Cooper’s Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the spring landscape in search of prey as sunset beckons in early April at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always be around
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you’ll be in my heart …”
~ “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
~ Stevie Wonder
~1974
My favorite white-tailed deer button buck – Buttons, as I call him, at left, – meets his apple at the same moment as his mama doe in mid-January at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, a site to warm the heart on a winter’s evening.
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.
