As Summer Walks Away ...

“… the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

           ~ Sylvia Plath

            ~ 1932 ~ 1963

        ~ “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”

               ~ published 1982

Scattered leaves sprinkle a trace of the autumn to come as a man strolls down a path at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, about to walk under the Interstate 78 Bridge that drapes above the peaceful parkway in this painterly, HDR image I shot on a late August evening as the light of the looming sunset tinges the Little Lehigh Creek, seen at right, with a golden hue.

The busy interstate that drives above the bucolic setting is an interesting juxtaposition, but the bridge does nothing to detract from the serene paths, natural scenery and the Little Lehigh Creek that flows through the length of the parkway.

Interstate 78 is an east-west highway running 144 miles from northeast of Harrisburg through Allentown in Pennsylvania, and western and northern New Jersey to the Holland Tunnel and Lower Manhattan in New York City.

A Whisper Of Autumn In August ...

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

           ~ Oscar Wilde

             ~ 1854 ~ 1900

Though summer, my most favorite of seasons, is still in full bloom on the sun dappled trail, the scattered leaves whisper of the autumn to come on a beautiful mid-August afternoon along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) in Laurys Station, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.

 

I captured this shot after setting out from The Cove Road Trailhead, which is near a Lehigh River Water Trail access point at Treichler’s Bridge. The trail is part of the Asher F. Boyer Eagle Trail section of the D&L.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.