Springhouse In A Twilight Snowfall ...

  “For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to  give it sweetness?”

   ~ John Steinbeck

    ~ 1902-1968

The Springhouse is nestled in winter’s beauty at the start of a late January snowfall in this painterly, HDR image I captured as twilight fell upon Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The log cabin was part of Springhouse, the summer home of General Harry Clay Trexler (1854-1933), an American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown. The park is his namesake.

In The Snowfall ...

“Stillness is the flower of winter,

all hope waits beneath a blanket of white.”

              ~ Unknown

The hopeful promise of spring is just around the corner as a late winter snowfall quietly paints its beauty across my favorite path in this infrared scene I captured on an early March afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

No Skating ...

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

              ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                    ~ 1803-1882

A midwinter snowfall cascades around the “No Skating” sign at the pond on a February afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Buck In The Falling Snow ...

“… I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief …

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

           ~ “The Peace of Wild Things”

                   ~ Wendell Berry

                        ~ born 1934

         ~ American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic & farmer

A beautiful four point white-tailed deer buck strikes a majestic pose as a peaceful hush sweeps across the field as a midwinter snowfall begins cascading from the sky in this high contrast monochrome shot I captured in the park in the late afternoon of a February day.

Winter White ...

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

                  ~Lewis Carroll

                        ~ 1832-1898

                  ~  “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

                                 ~ 1865

                                      &

                   “Through The Looking Glass”

                               ~ 1871 
The first snowfall of the season gently wraps the landscape in the beauty of winter white at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania as sunset draws near. Though the first snow fell December 9, 2017, a few weeks before the official beginning of winter, it blanketed the late autumn day with hushed winter beauty.