Snowed In Nostalgia ...

“I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.”

                                ~ Walt Disney

                                     ~ 1901-1966

Nostalgia is nestled in the snow in my sepia capture of the Springhouse at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Spring is just around the corner but there is still snow on the ground from a mid-March blizzard on this late winter day.

The 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.

Cut, Color And Roll ...

“ … Well I said shake, rattle and roll

I said shake, rattle and roll …”

                        “Shake, Rattle and Roll”

                      ~ written in 1954 by Jesse Stone (1901-1999) under his assumed songwriting name Charles E. Calhoun

          ~ recorded by the great Elvis Presley

                             ~1956

Strolling through Belvidere, New Jersey on a rare warm February afternoon, I came across this cool sign for Dee’s Doos Hair Salon. Elvis Presley sang about “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” but at Dee’s I believe the slogan would be “Cut, Color and Roll!”

Belvidere, one of my very favorite places, is a charming Victorian town located on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.

A Splash Of Dixie ...

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

                  ~ Eudora Welty

                       ~ 1909-2001

      ~ native of Jackson, Mississippi, 
      winner of The National Book Award 
                  & The Pulitzer Prize

   ~from “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”

                           ~ published 1982

It’s a beautiful splash of Dixie as autumn’s evening sun sparkles in a fountain in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.