Early Spring Postcard ...

“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.

 

Drawing Near The Christmas Bridge ...

“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.”

   ~ Charles Dickens

        ~ 1812-1870

Travelers draw near the historic Wehr’s Covered Bridge, Orefield, Pennsylvania, festooned in Christmas lights as it sparkles with the joy of Christmastime on a December evening a few days before Christmas in this rich tone monochrome shot. Remnants of a snowfall that blanketed the region with 11.3 inches of snow a week before still cover the ground that surrounds the bridge.

 

Wehr’s Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered bridge located in Covered Bridge Park in South Whitehall Township. It 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.The nearby Wehr’s Dam was built in 1904.

 

This beautiful bridge has seen travelers for 179 Christmastimes, but the true beauty is the reason and meaning of the season - the birth of Christ - which is timeless and remains the same.

 

Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas everyone!

Reeling In The Spring ...

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.”

    ~ Henry David Thoreau

      ~1817-1862

A lone fisherman, partially obscured by trees at right, reels in the beauty of a spring evening in mid-May along the Jordan Creek at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania. I shot this from the Pedestrian Bridge, built in 1993.

The park is home to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, Wehr’s Dam and Manassas Guth Covered Bridge, also known as Guth’s Covered Bridge or Guth’s Bridge.

The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.

Guth’s Covered Bridge was constructed in 1858 and rebuilt in 1882.

Both bridges cross the Jordan Creek and were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.