“Knowing
not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.”
~ William Faulkner
~ 1867-1962
~ one of my favorite authors, Southern
American author and Nobel Prize Laureate
~ “Light In August”
~ 1932
I
loved the way the late day October sun illuminates this small, lonely tree on a
beautiful autumn day 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 Delaware
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.
