Showing posts with label trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trail. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Vagabond October ...

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”

         ~ “A Vagabond Song”

         ~ William Bliss Carman

        ~ Canadian poet laureate

          ~ 1861 ~ 1929

 

Late October paints its colorful beauty on an autumn afternoon along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).

 

I captured this shot this after setting out from the Cementon Trailhead of the D&L Trail in Cementon, Pennsylvania, part of the Asher F. Boyer Eagle Trail section of the D&L.

 

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


 

Monday, April 5, 2021

Wheeling Through Winter ...

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

                ~ Charles Dickens

                    ~ 1812-1870

The temperature soared to 73 degrees and snow still sugared the ground on a beautiful mid-March afternoon when I spotted this man wheeling his way along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) on an ATV bike at Lehigh Gap.

In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the D&L Trail.

The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.


 

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

A World Where It Was Always June ...


“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
      ~ L.M. Montgomery
          ~ 1874-1942
A man cycles along the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania on a picturesque June afternoon a few days after summer, my most favorite of seasons, has just begun and starts to grow its beauty throughout the landscape.

The gorgeous day made me think of L.M. Montgomery’s words, “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” I think, what a wonderful world that would be!