“The
summer days are gone too soon
You
shoot the moon
And
miss completely
And
now you’re left to face the gloom
The
empty room that once smelled sweetly
Of
all the flowers you plucked if only
You
knew the reason
Why
you had to each be lonely
Was
it just the season?
Now
the fall is here again
You
can’t begin to give in
It’s
all over
When
the snows come rolling through
You’re
rolling too with some new lover
Will
you think of times you’ve told me
That
you knew the reason
Why
we had to each be lonely
It
was just the season”
~
“Shoot The Moon”
~ written by Jesse Harris
~recorded by Norah Jones
~
2002
~
The track was part of “Come Away With Me,” Jones’ first full-length album that
received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, and
reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and several jazz charts.
The
moon rises over the Kittatinny Ridge on a warm and beautiful last full weekend
of summer, my most favorite of seasons, on a September evening along the
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
Yes,
the summer days are gone too soon!
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 Delaware 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.
