Falling For April ...

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

                     ~ Christopher Marley

                         ~ artist & designer

                           ~ born 1969

The waters of the Monocacy Creek spill over Monocacy Falls in a cascading dance celebrating spring as a fisherman takes in the beauty of a late April afternoon, complete with a flowering cherry tree to complete a picturesque springtime scene I captured in this painterly, HDR image at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 

Summer Postmarked From Leaser Lake ...

 “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

                ~ Henry James

                  ~1843-1916

The poetic beauty of an afternoon in summer, my most favorite of seasons, reflects on a beautiful mid-July day at Leaser Lake, in the shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.

A fisherman pauses to snap a photo of a gaggle of Canadian geese while others enjoy the outdoors on the water.

Leaser Lake’s namesake is Frederick Leaser, an American patriot who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church for protection during the Revolutionary War. His homestead is located one mile north of the lake.

Leaser Lake was built by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for water-oriented recreation and opened for public use in 1971. Lehigh County leases this area from the state and operates and maintains the park. The land north of the lake was purchased by the county in the early 1970s. It is entirely wooded and is used for nature study and as an addition to the State Game Lands No. 217.

 

Reeling In The Spring ...

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.”

    ~ Henry David Thoreau

      ~1817-1862

A lone fisherman, partially obscured by trees at right, reels in the beauty of a spring evening in mid-May along the Jordan Creek at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania. I shot this from the Pedestrian Bridge, built in 1993.

The park is home to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, Wehr’s Dam and Manassas Guth Covered Bridge, also known as Guth’s Covered Bridge or Guth’s Bridge.

The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.

Guth’s Covered Bridge was constructed in 1858 and rebuilt in 1882.

Both bridges cross the Jordan Creek and were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.