Remembering A Summer Evening ...

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

      ~ Charles Bowden

         ~ journalist

           ~ 1945-2014

A beautiful summer evening in early August is worth remembering in this serene sepia image I shot on a hillside of the Central Range of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the only sound the rustling of the breeze and the chirping of birds. Perfect.

This image, nuanced with a nostalgic mood and captured in summer, my most favorite of seasons, I feel paints the meaning of journalist Charles Bowden’s words, “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

One January Day ...

“January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior striding a steady steed of snow.”

          ~ Edgar Fawcett

             ~ 1847-1904

 A light afternoon snowfall brushes the upper plateau of Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, painting winter’s quiet beauty on the canvas of one January day.

The Swan's Winter Evening ...

“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life.”

                      ~ L. Wolfe Gilbert

                ~Russian-born American songwriter 

                     of Tin Pan Alley

                      ~ 1886-1970

A beautiful mute swan serenely glides along the pond on an early February evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.