“Just
as the bird sings and the butterfly soars, because it is his natural
characteristic, so the artist works.”
~ Alma Gluck
~ 1884-1938
Though
this papillon has orange and black coloring, this is not a tiger, but an
Eastern Comma Butterfly.
This
beauty alights on an early June afternoon along the Delaware and Lehigh
National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
In
the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap
in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature
Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware
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.
