Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

These Boots Were Made For Bluebells ...

“Sacred watcher, wave thy bells!

Fair hill flower and woodland child!

Dear to me in deep green dells ~

Dearest on the mountain wild.”

  ~ Emily Bronte

   ~1818-1848

  ~ “To The Bluebell”

This little girl may well be thinking, “These boots were made for bluebells!” as she merrily rambles through the beguiling bluebells blooming in early April near the banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania in this candid capture. She traipsed happily but carefully as to not crush the bluebells, also called grape hyacinth.

The blooming of the multitude of Lock Ridge bluebells 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.









 


 


 


Monday, February 23, 2015

Chasing The Turtle Drum ...



"Dance along the silver sands and beat the turtle drum,
that youth may last forever, and sorrow never come." 

                                                             ~ "Beat The Turtle Drum"
                                                                       ~ Constance C. Greene
                                                                                            ~ 1994

Simple childhood joy paints the faces of children
anticipating a vehicle fording the Jordan Creek
at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
on a summer's day.

For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have enjoyed
driving through the creek - and watching too! 

                                        

Friday, September 27, 2013

Light of Innocence



"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
                                                                 ~ Tom Robbins

These two sisters were filled with the innocent joy of childhood seeing the ducks earlier this week at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.