Showing posts with label wading birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wading birds. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Great Blue September ...



“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”
                       ~ Luther Standing Bear
                                  ~ 1868-1939
 A Great Blue Heron seems to pose for a portrait while perched at Wehr’s Dam as it peers into the waters of the Jordan Creek on a late September afternoon.

The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841, at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Jet Blue Takeoff...


“Be inspired by your journeys traveled, and the ones yet to come.”
                             ~ Sam Clark

A Great Blue Heron prepares for a fast takeoff along the Little Lehigh Creek on an early July evening at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Heron In Winter ...


"Be inspired by your journeys traveled,
and the ones yet to come."
                                        ~ Sam Clark
Majestic Great Blue Heron peers from its perch high in a tree on the first day of winter at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Peering Atop The Apple Tree ...




“Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me,
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no!
Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me …”

            ~ “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree 
                  (With Anyone Else But Me)
    ~  Sam H. Stept, composer 
      ~ Lew Brown & Charles Tobias, writers
         ~ A popular song made famous by Glenn Miller & by The Andrews Sisters during World War II. Its lyrics are the words of two young lovers who pledge their fidelity while one of them is away serving in the war. It remained in “Your Hit Parade’s” first place from October 1942 through January 1943, the longest period for a war song to hold first place.


“Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me” ~ perhaps that’s what this Great White Egret – also known as a Great White Heron – is thinking as it almost seems to be waving while peering from atop an apple tree while on the hunt on an August evening at Cedar Creek Parkway,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.