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Showing posts with label august. Show all posts
Showing posts with label august. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Peering Atop The Apple Tree ...
“Don’t
sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me,
Anyone
else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no!
Don’t
sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me …”
~ “Don’t Sit
Under The Apple Tree
(With Anyone Else But Me)
(With Anyone Else But Me)
~ Sam H.
Stept, composer
~ Lew Brown & Charles Tobias, writers
~ Lew Brown & Charles Tobias, writers
~ A popular song made
famous by Glenn Miller & by The Andrews Sisters during World War
II. Its lyrics are the words of two young lovers who pledge their fidelity while one of them is
away serving in the war. It remained in “Your Hit Parade’s”
first place from October 1942 through January 1943, the longest period
for a war song to hold first place.
“Don’t
sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me” ~ perhaps that’s what this
Great White Egret – also known as a Great White Heron – is thinking as it
almost seems to be waving while peering from atop an apple tree while on the
hunt on an August evening at Cedar Creek Parkway,
Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Majestic Silence ...
"When words
become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate,
I shall be content with silence.”
~ Ansel Adams
~ 1902-1984
A still and silent, majestic beauty echoes on an early
August evening as I looked up to see a sliver of the moon peeking down on a
portion of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, at Lehigh Gap in
this high contrast monochrome shot.
The Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a
crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic
trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor
Trail (D&L Trail).
The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge
on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930
miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail
passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
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.
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