The Bluebird of Happiness In Winter ...

“…So be like I, hold your head up high

Till you find a bluebird of happiness

You will find greater peace of mind

Knowing there’s a bluebird of happiness

And when he sings to you

Though you’re deep in blue

You will see a light creep through

And so remember this, life is no abyss

Somewhere there’s a bluebird of happiness

 

For life is sweet, tender and complete

When you find the bluebird of happiness

You will find perfect peace of mind

Knowing there’s a bluebird of happiness

Two hearts beat as one

Beneath a new found sun

We are in a world that’s just begun

And you must sing his song, as you go along

When you find the bluebird of happiness …”

               ~ “Bluebird of Happiness”

            ~ composed in 1934 by Sandor Harmati, 

                    with words by Edward Heyman

    & additional lyrics by Harry-Parr-Davies

            ~ recorded by American operatic tenor

            Jan Peerce & other artists

A sweet and beautiful male Eastern Bluebird seemingly poses while perched above the snow on a winter afternoon in early February at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

Bluebird In Dixie ...

“Be like the bluebird who never is blue, for he knows from his upbringing what singing can do!”

                ~ Cole Porter

                  ~ 1891-1964

A sweet male Eastern Bluebird is framed by Spanish Moss in Dixieland on a beautiful late October afternoon in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Winter's Bluebird ...

“The bluebird carries the sky on its back.”

               ~ Henry David Thoreau

                         ~ 1817-1862

A beautiful male Eastern Bluebird enjoys a rare warm February day along the Delaware and Lehigh 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.