Winter Rushes Through The Ford ...

“Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river.”

        ~ James Clarence Mangan

           ~ Irish poet

            ~ 1803 ~ 1849

Winter’s song will soon give way to spring’s refrain as the cold, rushing waters swiftly flow on a March day at the ford of the Jordan Creek, one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph, at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

The River Wild ...

“Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river.”

             ~ James Clarence Mangan

                  ~ 1803-1849 

The rushing winter rapids of the Lehigh River come to a beautiful crescendo on a January afternoon at Lehigh Gap along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).

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 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.