Rainspotting At Wehr's Dam ...

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

     ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

        ~ 1807-1882

I spotted this Great Blue Heron, looking amazingly small standing in the Jordan Creek at Wehr’s Dam, as an early evening rain falls on June 21, 2021 – the first full day of summer – at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

The boardwalk of the Jordan Creek Greenway can be seen behind the dam.

The waters of the Jordan Creek spill over the dam to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge.

The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.

 

Fording The Jordan In Autumn ...

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

                  ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

                        ~1811-1896

Visitors to Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania ford the Jordan Creek on a late October afternoon, when intermittent autumn rain fails to dampen the beauty of the season.

For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have enjoyed driving through the creek.

The ford at the preserve is one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph.