"All good things are wild and free."
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817-1862
Great Blue Heron peers with a hunter's gaze perched in the sunshine and shadows of an autumn morning on the banks of the Little Lehigh Creek, Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"This land will remain
the land of the free
Only so long as it is
the home of the brave."
~ Elmer Davis
~ 1890-1958
May is the month we celebrate Armed Forces Day & Memorial Day, the perfect time to express deep gratitude to our nation's veterans. By your bravery and courage we remain the land of the free!
Here Old Glory waves proudly on a bright and breezy April morning at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."
~ Lilly Pulitzer
~ 1931-2013
The sunlight of an April morning whispers softly as a dream around the magnolia tree at my favorite spot at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"The swan, like the soul of a poet,
By the dull world is ill understood."
~ Heinrich Heine
~ 1797-1856
~ "Early Poems - Evening Songs"
Droplets of chilly spring waters cascade across a beautiful mute swan as it glides in the morning sunlight like poetry in motion on Lake Muhlenberg, Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Once upon a time, the world was sweeter than we knew ...
But somehow once upon a time never comes again."
~ "Once Upon A Time"
~ Charles Strouse & Lee Adams
from the 1962 musical "All American"
Harkening back to a simpler, sweeter time,
a beautiful October morning frames the historic beauty
of Rex's Covered Bridge, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
Though diminutive in size, it's well traveled in this
picturesque rural area where it crosses the Jordan Creek.
Rex's is a wooden, 150-foot-long Burr Truss bridge
constructed in 1858. It has narrow horizontal siding
and a gable roof. It was listed on the National Register
of Historic Places in 1980.
"I saw old autumn in
the misty morn
stand, shadowless like silence,
listening to silence."
~ Thomas Hood
~ 1799-1845
There is something so very special about the early morning, the
serenity, the quiet beauty. This feeling of a fresh new day is palpable
as the mist rises just after sunrise on a beautiful, chilly October
morning at Wehr's Dam, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The historic dam, awash with the waters of the Jordan Creek, was built in 1904
and is the perfect complement next to Wehr's Covered Bridge, built in 1841.
Regal Red-Tailed Hawk surveys the landscape from a high perch on an October morning at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. This bird of prey is the most common hawk in North America.
"Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream ...
Till you find your dream."
~ "Climb Every Mountain"
~ "The Sound of Music"
~ Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1959
Even the family dog seems to enjoy the summer morning ride to
Ford the Jordan Creek at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have
enjoyed driving through the creek.
"We live in the world when we love it."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
~ 1861-1941
Beautiful monarch butterfly savors summer's sweet nectar on a recent morning at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
A Great White Egret, also known as a Great White Heron, is on the hunt in the sun splashed waters of the Jordan Creek
on a summer morning at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"Ballet in the air ...
twin butterflies until, twice white
They meet, they mate."
~ Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694
Japanese Haiku
Mating white butterflies on an April morning at
Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"For in the dew of little things
the heart finds morning
and is refreshed."
~ Kahlil Gibran
A beautiful April morning at Robin Hood Dell, Lehigh Parkway,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Love is like a butterfly. It settles upon you when you least expect it."
~ Author Unknown
A pair of mating white butterflies on an April morning last week
at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"There is nowhere morning doesn't go."
~ Leah Hager Cohen
The Jordan Creeks spills over Wehr's Dam on a beautiful Saturday morning this
weekend., bringing to mind the 1969 Sandpipers song, "Come Saturday Morning."
Wehr's Dam is located at Wehr's Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The bridge was built in 1841 and restored in 1965.
"Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile."
~ William Cullen Bryant
~1794-1878
Gilded autumn leaves create a canopy this morning at one of my favorite spots on the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania.
"Nothing could be finer
than to be in Carolina in the morning ..."
~
"Carolina In The Morning"
The opening lines to the 1922 song come to life on a beautiful November morning at the Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, a 4, 053-acre national wildlife refuge located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, between the mainland and Hilton Head.
Pinckney Island NWR, established December 4, 1975, was once included in the plantation of Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent lawyer active in South Carolina politics from 1801-1815.
