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Showing posts with label january. Show all posts
Showing posts with label january. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Legacy In Winter ...
“Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.”
(“If
you seek his monument, look around.”)~ Epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, of which he was architect. The phrase is generally used to describe a person’s legacy – and can be taken to mean that what we leave behind (including intangible things like relationships) best represents our life.
General Harry C. Trexler looks majestic and stately on
horseback as a light January snowfall brushes this beautiful bronze statue of
his image on a winter afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
General Trexler (1854-1933) is the father of
Allentown’s park system. He was an industrialist, agriculturist,
philanthropist, conservationist and soldier. The park is his namesake.
This bronze statue of General Trexler was presented to
the City of Allentown by his trustees Nolan P. Benner, William B. Butz, Joseph
S. Young, Carl J.W. Hessinger and Richard E. White. It was commissioned January
16, 1979 and dedicated May 8, 1982.
General Trexler was a great man, and I’m personally
very thankful to him, as Trexler Memorial Park and Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania are two of my very favorite places to be and to
photograph.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Monday, December 5, 2016
Snowlight ...
“Kindness
is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
~
Kahlil Gibran
~ 1883-1931
The
banks of the Jordan Creek are draped in snow as sunlight sprinkles its
sparkling beauty on the creek’s icy waters at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a January afternoon soon after the historic
Blizzard of 2016.
In
a winter shorn of snow until the blizzard, the storm plonked 31 inches of snow
on nearby Allentown in a 24 hour period.
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