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Showing posts with label Trexler Nature Preserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trexler Nature Preserve. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Monday, November 14, 2016
Golden Delicious ...
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
~ George Eliot
~ 1819-1880
Autumn's paintbrush strokes a delicious golden
hue on the trees beneath a cerulean blue sky on a gorgeous November afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Wisp Of A Summer Morn ...
“Many a forenoon have I stolen
away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich,
if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor
do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher’s
desk.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817-1862
~ “Walden”
~originally
published August 9, 1854
To me, there’s nothing so beautiful
in nature as a summer morning, and Thoreau’s words seamlessly flow through this image
of milkweed basking in the morning sun that I shot on a brilliant August day at
Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
If we all had more sunny hours and
summer days, how much richer – and happier – we’d all be.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Peace On The Hillside ...
"There will be peace in the valley for me, some day
There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness, no sorrow
No trouble, trouble I see
There will be peace in the valley for me, for me."
~ "Peace In The Valley"
~ Written by Thomas A. Dorsey
~ 1937
~ Recorded by the great Elvis Presley
~ 1957
Bright wild yellow mustard brushes a soft peace on a
sun-filled May afternoon on a hillside of the Central Range of the Trexler
Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the only sounds the rustling of
the spring breeze and the coo of a mourning dove. Perfect.
The color yellow is often associated with peace and
happiness.
To me, this scene illustrates the still and serene
beauty of God’s creation painted in that beautiful Gospel hymn “Peace in the
Valley,” recorded by the great Elvis Presley in 1957.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Baby's Evening On The Range ...
"We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;
But the whole of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ 1803-1882
What a sweet baby bison, and the first I’ve ever
photographed!
Sweet and simple and simply sweet. That’s what I
thought on seeing this beautiful female American Bison calf sipping water on a
warm spring evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania,
where bison live as a herd on the hillsides of the 1,100-acre preserve’s
Central Range.
I captured this shot in June, three weeks after the
calf’s birth, and her mother stood closeby.
When the late General Harry C. Trexler established the
preserve in the early 1900s, he did it to save the American bison, elk and
white-tailed deer from extinction and assure the species’ survival.
A conservationist along the lines of Theodore
Roosevelt and John Muir, General Trexler understood the importance of nature
and preserving wildlife in its natural habitat.
A successful businessman who amassed a fortune in the
timber and cement industries and founded the Pennsylvania Power and Light
Company, General Trexler began purchasing small farms in the low hills of
Lehigh County in 1906. By 1913, he had transported eight bison and 20 Virginia
white-tailed deer to the preserve. The elk followed soon after.
When General Trexler died in 1933, he bequeathed the
property to the residents of Lehigh County. Today, the Trexler Nature Preserve
is open to the public for passive recreation and nature watching.
The American Bison was recently designated the first
national mammal of the United States. The majestic bison joins the bald eagle
as a national symbol.
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