Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2018

Morning At The Mill ...


“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.”
                 ~ Henry David Thoreau
                          ~ 1817-1862
The historic Haines Mill is the hub of a picturesque scene on a late October morning in the Borough of Cetronia, Allentown, Pennsylvania as it reflects the beauty of bygone days.

Also known as Haines Mill Museum, it is an historic grist mill built circa 1850. It produced flour processed by an old-fashioned water-powered mill located just off the banks of the Cedar Creek. It remained in full operation until 1957.

A mill has stood here on the banks of the Cedar Creek since colonial times. The current circa 1850 Haines Mill offers a trip into the world of the early technology that supported farm life.

The sign on the front of the building says: “Haines Bros. Flour Mill, The Home of Gilt Edge Flour,” with a sack of flour etched with the words, “Cetronia Flour Mills, Gilt Edge Flour, 50 lbs. net, Allentown.”

It is a four-story, stone building with a slate covered gambrel roof. It is three bay by three bay, 42 feet by 46 feet, 9 inches. The interior was rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1908. A three-story brick addition was built in 1930, with a lean-to roof. Atop the main roof is a cupola.

Today, Haines Mill is operated as a partnership between the County of Lehigh, which owns and maintains the site, and the Lehigh County Historical Society, which provides public tours. It is located in a serene 37.5 acre park.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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.