Snow-Dipped Robin Hood Dell ...

“ … Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,

In the bleak midwinter …”

   “In the Bleak Midwinter”

  ~ Christina Rossetti

    ~ 1830 ~ 1894

 ~ “In the Bleak Midwinter” is a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol. The poem was first published under the title “A Christmas Carol” in the January 1872 issue of “Scribner’s Monthly.”

A snow-dipped Robin Hood Dell is dressed up in winter’s beauty in this infrared image as the waters of the Little Lehigh Creek flow beneath the bridge at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on a mid-February afternoon soon after seven inches of snow blanketed the area.

 

Daisies After A Spring Rain ...

“Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are,

With blades of grass between,

Each daisy stands up like a star

Out of a sky of green.”

      ~ Christina Rossetti

        ~ 1830-1894                               

Raindrops linger on daisies, so beautiful and innocent, sweet and simple and the star of the show, on a late spring afternoon in early June when the sun has broken through after a rainfall at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

The Four Musketeers ...

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

                     ~ Christina Rossetti

                                ~ 1830-1894

Four precious young barn swallows peek over their nest in a barn at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an August afternoon.

The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally uses man-made structures to breed. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures.