“Childhood memories are like fireflies – small, fleeting, but they light up the darkest nights.”
~ often attributed to Rabindranath Tagore
~ 1861 ~ 1941
A trio of young girls make happy childhood memories searching for tadpoles in the waters of the Jordan Creek that are about to spill over Wehr’s Dam, built in 1904, on a beautiful late May afternoon at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
“If you never did you should.
These things
are fun. And fun is good.”
~ Dr. Seuss
(Theodore
Seuss Geisel)
~1904-1991
This sweet little girl could heed these words of Dr. Seuss and give her
hula hoop a whirl in this candid capture on a chilly April day at Lehigh
Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
I presented the image in sepia to enhance a nostalgic mood.
The hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs or neck. The modern hula hoop was invented in 1958 by Arthur K. “Spud” Melin and Richard Knerr, but children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history.
“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.
