“Sacred
watcher, wave thy bells!
Fair
hill flower and woodland child!
Dear
to me in deep green dells –
Dearest
on the mountain wild.”
~ Emily Bronte
~1818-1848
~ “To The
Bluebell”
This
little girl touches the beguiling bluebells blooming in early April near the
banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania
in this candid capture.
The
blooming of the multitude of Lock Ridge bluebells – also called grape hyacinth
– is a clarion call of spring in the Lehigh Valley, drawing many people to
photograph and glimpse their beauty in the span of the few weeks they bloom.
Lock
Ridge Park is a park built around an historic iron ore blast furnace just
outside Alburtis, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. The park preserves
portions of the former Lock Ridge Iron Works, which dates back to 1868. The
59-acre park was opened in August 1976.
