Twenty-four hours in a day and *Linda Lou, a reader on Facebook, packs a lot of living into it. She posts pictures on her Meta page. One picture caught Lower Bucks Source’s (LBS) attention recently and led to a sit-down with her about her photography exploits.
Meeting with Linda face-to-face for the first time was like meeting an old friend. The conversation flowed and covered lots of topics. One topic, the focus of this story, was getting the back story of the picture that interested LBS. It featured a fawn at the backdrop of woods and LBS wanted to know more.
Relating the story behind the picture, Linda explained that she took the picture of the fawn near the PenRyn School on South Olds Boulevard in Fairless Hills. She first saw the fawn at the Fairless Hills (Oxford Valley) Public Golf Course.
“The momma left it for the day and of course I was worried sick about it so I would stop over and do a drive-by and check it out but i wouldn’t go near it. It was too close to the road to get out of the car and take its picture there. I wanted to so bad but I didn’t,” she said.
She later on went to a local park and drove through the neighborhood when she spotted the fawn. “It had to be the same fawn that was at the golf course, so I pulled over and kept my distance and took some pictures of the fawn playing in the woods by himself it seemed. I really think that fawn, it didn’t have a mom, maybe at first it did, but at the school there wasn’t a mom near by. A friend saw the fawn across the street by itself, probably the day after I spotted it at the golf course, so i don’t know if it was motherless,” said Linda. It took Linda one to two weeks for her to capture a picture. She has not seen the fawn since.
Male Cardinal in the Forsythia at home
The back story of the lady with a photographer’s eye is a that of a wife, mother, and one who combines her passions with working in a flower shop, She is also the granddaughter of former Lenape Indian Chief Whippoorwillbill. She still finds time to take care of her home, garden, go to the gym, travel, and indulge in her love of photography, flowers and taking walks. She has had encounters with a bear, a racoon and a coyote while trying to take pictures. In the past, Falls Township ran a photography contest and she received an award twice from them for her photographs.
Credit: Linda Lou
It appears that Linda does not let grass grow under her feet. She is always on the go, evident of meeting with her for this interview. She left work, packed in a errand before meeting and was zipping off to somewhere else afterwards. When asked about down time, Linda said, “I do have some downtime. I barely nap. If I have nothing to do, then I can take a nap. If I sit still too long, I start to doze off.” She talks of dozing off while waiting at doctor offices. Even once, she almost fell asleep while a dentist was working on her mouth. It seems that even the busy need their sleep.
But apparently snapping nature based pictures is something she tends to with great care and love, and LBS appreciates that and we think you will too.
Winter Golden Sunset – Core Creek Park
Spring at Churchville Nature Center
Editors Note: “Linda Lou” asked that her legal name not be used in this story and to please use her Meta name.
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