A Trail Of Sugar ...

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

                          ~ John Steinbeck

                                   ~ 1902-1968

Traces of a Christmas Eve snowfall remain the day after Christmas to sugar the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania as sunset looms to close a beautiful but very cold day.

Winter White ...

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

                  ~Lewis Carroll

                        ~ 1832-1898

                  ~  “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

                                 ~ 1865

                                      &

                   “Through The Looking Glass”

                               ~ 1871 
The first snowfall of the season gently wraps the landscape in the beauty of winter white at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania as sunset draws near. Though the first snow fell December 9, 2017, a few weeks before the official beginning of winter, it blanketed the late autumn day with hushed winter beauty.

The First Snowfall ...

“Oh the first snowfall of the winter

Was a day that we all waited for …

Oh the first snowfall of the winter

Jingle bells wove their spells ever dear

Under wintry skies of gray

It was snowing hard all day

And it showed no signs of stoppin …

On the first snowfall of the winter

Oh, that first snowfall of the year …”

          ~ “The First Snowfall”

                   ~ written by 

       Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke

  ~ recorded by the wonderful Bing Crosby

                 on November 22, 1955

~ Crosby was the first popular singer

                  to record Christmas songs.

 All is quiet as the snow softly continues to fall as sunset draws near during the first snowfall of the season at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Though the first snow fell December 9, 2017, a few weeks before the official beginning of winter, it blanketed the late autumn landscape with the hushed beauty of winter.