Summer Riverscape ...

“The life in us is like the water in a river.”

       ~ Henry David Thoreau

            ~ 1817 ~ 1862

            ~ “Walden”

              ~ published 1854

Folks enjoy a sun splashed late July afternoon on the Lehigh River along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) on a perfect day in summer, my most favorite of seasons.

I captured this shot this after setting out from the Cementon Trailhead of the D&L Trail in Cementon, Pennsylvania, 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.

 

Bluebells & Broad Brimmed Hats ...

 “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.

 

Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland ...

“Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’?

In the lane snow is glistenin’

A beautiful sight

We’re happy tonight

Walkin’ in a winter wonderland …”

        ~ “Winter Wonderland”

          ~ music by Felix Bernard, lyrics by

                   Richard B. Smith

               ~ 1934

“Winter Wonderland” is a winter song, popularly regarded as a Christmas song. Through the decades it has been recorded by over 200 different artists.

 

Two men walk through a winter wonderland a fresh February snowfall has created on my favorite path at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.