Showing posts with label Hal Borland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hal Borland. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2018

And Autumn Comes ...


“Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
                        ~ Hal Borland
                         ~ 1900-1978
     ~American author, journalist and naturalist
The looming sunset of a late October day reflects the poetic beauty of autumn in the Bushkill Creek in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park, which spans between Wind Gap and Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Jacobsburg offers environmental education programs from the preschool environmental awareness programs to high school level environmental problem solving programs, historical programs, teacher workshops and public interpretive programs. Once the site where the famous Henry Rifle was made, the Jacobsburg National Historic District lies almost entirely within the park. Henry’s Woods offers very scenic hikes and the rest of the center grounds have multi-use trails.

The park surrounds the Bushkill Creek.

The original land for the center was purchased by the Department of Forests and Waters from the City of Easton in 1959. In 1969, additional land was purchased using funds from Project 70. This brought the total land area of the center to its present size of 1,168 acres.

Monday, March 26, 2018

No Winter Lasts Forever ...


“No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.” 
              ~ Hal Borland
                        ~ 1900-1978
     ~ American author, journalist & naturalist

A beautiful hyacinth at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania droops into the spring snow a day after a snowstorm on the first full day of spring March 21 brought more than a foot of snow to the region.