Remembering Where The Bluebells Bloom ...

“Sacred watcher, wave thy bells!

Fair hill flower and woodland child!

Dear to me in deep green dells –

Dearest on the mountain wild.”

                           ~ Emily Bronte

                                 ~1818-1848

                               ~ “To The Bluebell”

This little girl touches the beguiling bluebells blooming in early April near the banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania in this candid capture.

The blooming of the multitude of Lock Ridge bluebells – also called grape hyacinth – is a clarion call of spring in the Lehigh Valley, drawing many people to photograph and glimpse their beauty in the span of the few weeks they bloom.

Lock Ridge Park is a park built around an historic iron ore blast furnace just outside Alburtis, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. The park preserves portions of the former Lock Ridge Iron Works, which dates back to 1868. The 59-acre park was opened in August 1976.

The Icing Over The Creek ...

“Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.”

       ~ Henry Williamson

         ~ 1895-1977

       ~ English army officer, naturalist,

        farmer & ruralist writer

Icicles seemingly sing with artistic beauty in the sunshine of a winter afternoon, after forming on a fallen tree trunk over the Jordan Creek, in this high contrast monochrome shot I captured on a January day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

I'll Fly Away ...

“… Just a few more days and then

I’ll fly away

To a land where joys will never end

I’ll fly away …”

           ~ “I’ll Fly Away”

          ~ written by Alfred E. Brumley

        in 1929, published in 1932

  ~ “I’ll Fly Away” has been called the most recorded Gospel song. One of the earliest recordings of the hymn was made by the Selah Jubilee Singers in 1941. It has been recorded by many artists, including George Jones, Johnny Cash and Alan Jackson.

It is a frequently used in worship services by Baptists, Pentecostals, Nazarenes, the Churches of Christ & many Methodists.

I captured this high contrast monochrome shot of milkweed seeds in the October breeze before they fly away on an autumn afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.