“Dream no small dreams.”
~ Victor Hugo
~ 1802-1885
A beautiful Juvenile Red-Tailed
Hawk casts its eye across the landscape from a high perch on a late September
afternoon kissed by the autumn sun on the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue
Mountain, along
the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh
Gap, Slatington, Pennsylvania.
The
Lehigh Gap is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect
two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the D&L Trail.
The
Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh
Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
Background
texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.
