Green On Greens ...

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”

                    ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

                           ~ 1600-1681

A small green heron is perched in a tree overlooking the pond on a warm July evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Winding Wintry Sunset ...

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”

           ~ Sylvia Plath

              ~ 1932-1963

        ~ “The Unabridged Journals of 

                   Sylvia Plath”

                 ~ published 1982

The path winds toward a wintry sunset amid the snow painted landscape on a beautiful January day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Little Parson Brown ...

“… In the meadow we can build a snowman

Then pretend that he is Parson Brown

He’ll say, are you married?

We’ll say, no man

But you can do the job

When you’re in town …”

                ~ “Winter Wonderland”

        ~ music by Felix Bernard,

              lyrics by Richard B. Smith

                             ~ 1934

“Winter Wonderland” is a winter song, popularly regarded as a Christmas song. Through the decades it has been recorded by over 200 different artists.

Just like a Little Parson Brown, this miniature snowman that I saw a little boy make sits in front of the Springhouse on one of the stone bridges at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania on November 17, 2018, two days after the season’s first snowfall. The pre-Thanksgiving snowfall blanketed the region with eight inches of snow.

This log cabin was part of Springhouse, the summer home of General Harry C. Trexler (1854-1933) an American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown. The park is his namesake.

I presented the image in sepia to enhance the nostalgic feel.