A Wisp Of Nature ...

“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated.”

            ~ Kahlil Gibran

               ~ 1883 ~ 1931

It’s a wisp of nature on a beautiful early July afternoon along the banks of the Monocacy Creek as a bee is nectaring on the summer sweetness of a purple coneflower, sharing the petals with a ladybug at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 

The Grasshopper ...

“My dear young fellow,’ the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, ‘there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.”

                   ~ Roald Dahl

                       ~ British author

                           ~ 1916 ~ 1990

              ~ from “James & the Giant Peach”

                        ~ published 1961

A grasshopper takes in the wonder of autumn’s beauty on an early October afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Just Dandy ...

“Butterflies … flowers that fly and all but sing.”

       ~ Robert Frost

            ~ 1874-1963

         ~ Four Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

A white butterfly alights on a dandelion on a beautiful – and dandy – April afternoon along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.

In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the D&L Trail. 

The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.