“Kindness is like snow ~ it beautifies everything it covers.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
~ 1883 ~ 1931
The cold winter waters of the Monocacy Creek spill over Monocacy Falls in a cascading dance before the waters ramble past the snowy banks through Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on a beautiful February afternoon, three days after the region was blanketed with 27.3 inches of snow.
“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.
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
~ Pablo Picasso
~ 1881 ~ 1973
The golden hour of a beautiful late February day illuminates patches of snow and the Little Lehigh Creek to the right of a path at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, that leads to the Interstate 78 bridge that drapes above the peaceful parkway in this painterly, HDR image I shot as sunset loomed.
The busy interstate that drives above the bucolic setting is an interesting juxtaposition, but the bridge does nothing to detract from the serene paths, natural scenery and the Little Lehigh Creek, seen at right, that flows through the length of the parkway.
Interstate 78 is an east-west highway running 144 miles from northeast of Harrisburg through Allentown in Pennsylvania, and western and northern New Jersey to the Holland Tunnel and Lower Manhattan in New York City.
