“Childhood memories are like fireflies – small, fleeting, but they light up the darkest nights.”
~ often attributed to Rabindranath Tagore
~ 1861 ~ 1941
A trio of young girls make happy childhood memories searching for tadpoles in the waters of the Jordan Creek that are about to spill over Wehr’s Dam, built in 1904, on a beautiful late May afternoon at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
“A day comes in the springtime
When Earth puts forth her powers,
Casts off the bounds of winter
And lights him hence with flowers;
And then by marsh and meadow
And by the silvery sea,
Goes up the red-wings’ chorus:
On-caree!
… Hope is a roving gypsy
With laughter on her tongue,
And blue sky and sunshine
Alone, can keep her young;
And year by year she lingers
Under a budding tree
To join the red-wings’ chorus:
On-caree!”
~ “The Chorus”
~ 1902
~ Dora Read Goodale
~American poet
~ 1866-1953
A red-winged blackbird joins in the chorus of “On-caree!” as sunset looms on an early spring day in March along the Jordan Creek Greenway Trail at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
~ Lewis Grizzard
~ 1946 ~ 1994
~ American writer & humorist, known for his Southern demeanor & commentary on the American South.
The feeling of early spring pirouettes on the waters of the Jordan Creek as they spill over Wehr’s Dam, built in 1904, to flow beneath the historic Wehr’s Covered Bridge, creating a picturesque early spring postcard at Wehr’s Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The wooden covered bridge in South Whitehall Township is a three-span, 117-foot long Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has horizontal siding and a gable roof. It crosses the Jordan Creek and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
I shot this image in the late afternoon of March 24, 2024, less than a week after spring had once again awakened the land.
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
~1896-1940
The afternoon sun pirouettes on the waters of the Jordan Creek as they spill over Wehr’s Dam in this painterly, HDR image I shot November 1, 2021.
The Jordan Creek continues to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.
The boardwalk of the Jordan Creek Greenway can be seen behind the dam.
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
~ Virginia Woolf
~ 1882-1941
Its icy beauty in infrared as winter infuses Wehr’s Dam with a frozen splendor as sunset dances cheek to cheek with twilight at the finish of a late February day. The waters of the Jordan Creek spill over the dam to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge.
The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841, at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
