Spring With A Cherry On Top ...

“Came the spring with all its splendor,

All its birds and blossoms,

All its flowers and leaves and grasses.”

                   ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

                                ~ 1807-1882

An artistic view of delightful cherry blossoms that top off an April afternoon with the spirit of spring on North Ott Street near Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Kwanzan Cherry Trees line the city with splendor with their beautiful but fleeting pink canvas.

There are 46 Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees in the vicinity. The original trees date to the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Canvassing Cherry Blossom Row ...

“Filling a space in a beautiful way – that is what art means to me.”

                             ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

                                       ~ 1887-1996

Kwanzan Cherry Trees line the city with beauty in April on North Ott Street near Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania as afternoon traffic flows by their beautiful but fleeting pink canvas.

There are 46 Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees in the vicinity. The original trees date to the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In The Cold Spring Rain ...

“…I’ll go walking through

With the rain in my shoes

Searchin’ for you 

In the cold Kentucky rain …”

                    ~ “Kentucky Rain”

              ~ written by Eddie Rabbitt & Dick Heard

     ~ recorded by the great Elvis Presley

                                                ~ 1970

With a cold spring rain falling lightly on a chilly April afternoon, a man soaks in the quiet beauty as he walks in Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in this artistic interpretation.