Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Daisies After A Spring Rain ...


“Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are,
With blades of grass between,
Each daisy stands up like a star
Out of a sky of green.”
      ~ Christina Rossetti
        ~ 1830-1894                               
Raindrops linger on daisies, so beautiful and innocent, sweet and simple and the star of the show, on a late spring afternoon in early June when the sun has broken through after a rainfall at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Monday, October 14, 2019

Red-Tailed Focus ...


“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
               ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
                           ~ 1803-1882
A red-tailed hawk peers from its perch in search of prey on an early October evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Southern Sundance ...


“But the beauty is in the walking – we are betrayed by destinations.”
           ~ Gwyn Thomas
              ~ 1936-2016
   ~ Welsh poet, academic and a
           former National Poet for Wales
Sunlight dances through the trees and Spanish Moss as two walkers in the distance bask in the beauty of a gorgeous late October afternoon at Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, a 4,053-acre national wildlife refuge located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, between the mainland and Hilton Head. 

Pinckney Island NWR, established December 4, 1975, was once included in the plantation of Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent lawyer active in South Carolina politics from 1801-1815.