“I do not think I have ever seen anything more
beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our
Lord by it.”
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
~ English poet & Jesuit priest
~ 1844 ~ 1889
Folks donning broad
brimmed hats enjoy an April stroll through the beguiling bluebells
blooming softly near the banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and
Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania in this candid image I captured on a
beautiful spring afternoon.
The
blooming of the multitude of Lock Ridge bluebells – also called grape hyacinth
– is a clarion call of spring in the Lehigh Valley, drawing many people to
photograph and glimpse their beauty in the span of the few weeks they bloom.
Lock
Ridge Park is a park built around an historic iron ore blast furnace just
outside Alburtis, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. The park preserves
portions of the former Lock Ridge Iron Works, which dates back to 1868. The
59-acre park was opened in August 1976.