Showing posts with label Lower Saucon Township. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lower Saucon Township. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2022

Americana ...

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

            ~ Jack Kerouac

               ~ 1922 ~ 1969

As if dropped into the spring landscape from a German Christmas putz, I captured this slice of Americana ~ with the American flag billowing in the breeze ~ on a late April afternoon along the Saucon Rail Trail in the Saucon Valley, Hellertown, Pennsylvania.


 

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

When Autumn Leaves Start To Fall ...

“The falling leaves drift by the window

The autumn leaves of red and gold

I see your lips, the summer kisses

The sun-burned hands I used to hold

 

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song

But I miss you most of all my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall …

     ~ “Autumn Leaves”

    ~written 1945, released 1946

 ~Popular song & jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma with original lyrics by Jacques Prevert in French, & later by Johnny Mercer in English. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a number one best seller in the U.S. Billboard charts of 1955. It was recorded by Nat King Cole in 1955 and many other artists throughout the years, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra & Tom Jones.

 

I captured this candid shot of a man walking alone along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania as sunset loomed on a beautiful mid-November afternoon.

 

Though autumn is the season of colorful fall foliage, I thought presenting the image in infrared was in tune with the melancholy mood of that beautiful song, “Autumn Leaves.”


 

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

A World Where It Was Always June ...


“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
      ~ L.M. Montgomery
          ~ 1874-1942
A man cycles along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania on a picturesque June afternoon a few days after summer, my most favorite of seasons, has just begun and starts to grow its beauty throughout the landscape.

The gorgeous day made me think of L.M. Montgomery’s words, “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” I think, what a wonderful world that would be!