~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817 ~ 1862
~ from “A Winter Walk”
~ published 1843
The Monocacy Creek meanders through Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, soon after almost a foot of snow blanketed the region, painting the landscape with a sugary white coat on a beautiful February afternoon.
“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.”
~ Jack Kerouac
~1922 ~ 1969
Winter’s icy beauty infuses Wehr’s Dam with a frozen splendor that makes the waters of the Jordan Creek look like vanilla ice on a late January day.
The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841, at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
“ … Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter …”
“In the Bleak Midwinter”
~ Christina Rossetti
~ 1830 ~ 1894
~ “In the Bleak Midwinter” is a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol. The poem was first published under the title “A Christmas Carol” in the January 1872 issue of “Scribner’s Monthly.”
A snow-dipped Robin Hood Dell is dressed up in winter’s beauty in this infrared image as the waters of the Little Lehigh Creek flow beneath the bridge at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on a mid-February afternoon soon after seven inches of snow blanketed the area.
“I’ll own it’s cold for such a fall of snow.”
~ “Snow”
~ Robert Frost
~ 1884 ~ 1963
~ four time Pulitzer Prize winner
A fresh early March snowfall paints itself around the Springhouse at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, as icicles fringe the roof of the log cabin on a sunny and beautiful late winter afternoon in this high contrast monochrome shot.
The log cabin, one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph, was part of Springhouse, the summer home of General Harry Clay Trexler (1854-1933), an American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown. The park is his namesake.
