Coloring The Kittatinny ...

   "I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."

                     ~ Lee Maynard

                                 ~ born 1936              

Autumn paints a portion of the Kittatiny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, and foliage along the winding Lehigh River at a beautiful vista just off the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D & L Trail), Weissport, Pennsylvania on an early November afternoon.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

The Mountains Are Calling ...

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

                                    ~ John Muir

                                        ~ 1838-1914 

These words of John Muir surely resonated with me as I took this shot on a warm, late spring evening with sunset approaching, looking up at the Lehigh Gap Bridge spanning over the Lehigh River to 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 Lehigh Heritage Corridor Trail (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.

The Lehigh Gap Bridge was built in 1930 and rehabilitated in 1984.