Falling Into Winter ...

“November comes And November goes

With the last red berries and the first white snows.

With night coming early,

And dawn coming late,

And ice in the bucket

And frost by the gate.

The fires burn

And the kettles sing,

And earth to sinks to rest

Until next spring.”

        ~ “November Comes and November Goes”

            ~ Elizabeth Coatsworth

                 ~ 1893-1986

           ~ Winner of the Newberry Medal, 1931

Autumn meets winter as fall foliage reflects in the path wetted by melted snow on the afternoon of November 16, 2018 – a day after the season’s first snowfall – at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The pre-Thanksgiving snowfall blanketed the region with eight inches of snow.

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.

And Autumn Comes ...

“Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

                        ~ Hal Borland

                         ~ 1900-1978

     ~American author, journalist and naturalist

The looming sunset of a late October day reflects the poetic beauty of autumn in the Bushkill Creek in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park, which spans between Wind Gap and Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Jacobsburg offers environmental education programs from the preschool environmental awareness programs to high school level environmental problem solving programs, historical programs, teacher workshops and public interpretive programs. Once the site where the famous Henry Rifle was made, the Jacobsburg National Historic District lies almost entirely within the park. Henry’s Woods offers very scenic hikes and the rest of the center grounds have multi-use trails.

The park surrounds the Bushkill Creek.

The original land for the center was purchased by the Department of Forests and Waters from the City of Easton in 1959. In 1969, additional land was purchased using funds from Project 70. This brought the total land area of the center to its present size of 1,168 acres.