Ice Cold Coca-Cola ...

“I’d like to buy the world a home

And furnish it with love

Grow apple trees and honey bees

And snow white turtle doves.

I’d like to teach the world to sing

In perfect harmony

I’d like to buy the world a Coke

And keep it company

That’s the real thing.

What the world wants today

Coca-Cola

Is the real thing.”

         ~ “Buy The World A Coke”

            ~ famous Coca-Cola jingle circa 1971

The snow atop a Coca-Cola concession trailer gives a new flavor to the term “Ice Cold Coca-Cola” on a late winter day in early March at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

“I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)” is a pop song that originated as the jingle “Buy the World a Coke” in the groundbreaking 1971 “Hilltop” television commercial for Coca-Cola. “Buy the World a Coke” was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love, featuring a multicultural collection of teenagers on top of a hill appearing to sing the song. “Buy the World a Coke” repeated “It’s the real thing” as Coca-Cola’s marketing theme at the time. Coca-Cola introduced that slogan in October 1969.

Coca-Cola, often referred to simply as Coke, is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented by Confederate Colonel John Pemberton and introduced May 8, 1886.

Red Pops Along The Canal ...

      “When in doubt, make a red painting.”

         ~ Kay Walkingstick,

             ~ born 1935

     ~ Native American landscape artist, member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

         and resident of Easton, Pennsylvania

I captured this painterly image of one of the historic locks in the Delaware Canal on a late October afternoon along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) between the Forks of the Delaware Trailhead at Delaware Canal State Park and Wy Hit Tuk Park Trailhead, Easton, Pennsylvania. 

The trail is positioned between the Delaware River and Delaware Canal.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

The Red House Along The Autumn Canal ...

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

                             ~ Henry Beston

                                   ~ 1888-1968

The historic Harry Rickert House reflects in the Lehigh Canal on a beautiful autumn afternoon in early November along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail), Weissport, Pennsylvania, where the trail is positioned between the Lehigh River and Lehigh Canal.

Weissport flourished as a Lehigh Canal town until 1942. Diverse goods, coal and people moved along the waterway. Boatyards and a mercantile center in the Harry Rickert House anchored business activity here.

The house itself was built just after the canal was dug and built in 1828. Jacob K. Rickert came to Weissport in the 1850s, and through his son Hiram and grandson Harry, the Rickert’s business continued to operate until the 1950s. Today the stately building is owned by Rod and Jennifer Mann. The house is their home plus a guest house known as “The Canal Side Guest House.”

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.