The Guitar Man ...

“Who draws the crowd and plays so loud, baby it’s the guitar man

Who’s gonna steal the show you know baby, it’s the guitar man

He can make you love, he can make you cry

He will bring you down and he’ll get you high

Somethin’ keeps him goin’ miles and miles a day

To find another place to play

Night after night, who treats you right, baby, it’s the guitar man

Who’s on the radio, you go and listen to the guitar man

Then he comes to town and you see his face

And you think you might like to take his place

Somethin’ keeps him driftin’ miles and miles away

Searching for the songs to play

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along

You want to get the meaning out of each and every song

Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own and take 'em home

He can make you love, he can get you high

He will bring you down, then he’ll make you cry

Somethin’ keeps him movin’ but no one seems to know 

What it is that makes him go

Then the light begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim

The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin

But he never seems to notice, he’s just got to find another place to play

Fade away

Got to play

Fade away

Got to play”

                   ~ “The Guitar Man”

                     ~ “Bread”

                           ~1972

                      ~ written by David Gates

 The Guitar Man strums the chords and sings his songs in front of the Historic Bethlehem Visitor Center in this infrared street capture I shot on a late November afternoon in downtown historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A Kiss For Mama ...

“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

It doesn’t get sweeter than this, seeing a beautiful white-tailed deer fawn and its mama doe in a tender moment a gorgeous late August evening in the park – a honey of a summer sight!  

The Zinnia ...

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

               ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

                         ~ 1887-1986

A beautiful zinnia gushes with color on a late summer evening in early September at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. They gush in color, including white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red purple and lilac. Their tendency to attract butterflies and hummingbirds is seen as desirable. The genus honors German master botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759).