Summertime At Geiger's Covered Bridge ...

“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy ...

 ~ “Summertime”

 ~ composed by George Gershwin in 1934

 for the 1935 opera “Porgy & Bess”

~ performed by such jazz greats as

 Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong,

 Sarah Vaughan & Billie Holiday

It’s summertime and the livin’ is easy at Geiger’s Covered Bridge on the warm, lazy and lush July evening – quintessential summer – I captured this HDR scene that beckons you to stop and soak in the splendor of my most favorite of seasons in this picturesque postcard of summer’s beauty.

 

Geiger’s Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered bridge in North Whitehall Township. It is a 112-foot-long Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1860. It has vertical plank siding and an entry portal of stepped square planks. It crosses the Jordan Creek and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It can be accessed from The Covered Bridge Trail of Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.