“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
~ 1883 ~ 1931
It’s a wisp of nature on a beautiful early July afternoon along the banks of the Monocacy Creek as a bee is nectaring on the summer sweetness of a purple coneflower, sharing the petals with a ladybug at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
“But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.”
~ Khalil Gibran
~ 1883 ~ 1931
The reflection of autumn leaves colorfully cascades across the Pequest River as it flows through the middle of town in Belvidere, New Jersey, a Delaware River Town, on a perfect Indian Summer afternoon in early November.
The Pequest ~ Native American for “open land” ~ is a tributary of the Delaware River. It tumbles down to Belvidere in a series of falls, where it meets the Delaware.
Belvidere, one of my very favorite places, is a charming, Victorian town located on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
~ 1883 ~ 1931
Kreidersville Covered Bridge is sitting pretty in this painterly, HDR shot I captured on a beautiful mid-August afternoon. The bridge in Allen Township, on the outskirts of Northampton, Pennsylvania was built in 1839 and is loved for its great history and tranquil setting by the Hokendauqua Creek. It is the only covered bridge left in Northampton County.
The pedestrian-only bridge that crosses the Hokendauqua Creek is the oldest covered bridge in the Lehigh Valley and one of the oldest in the state. The historic wooden Burr Truss Bridge has a 116-foot-long span and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
