Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts

Thursday, September 21, 2017

A Splash Of Dixie ...



“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”
                  ~ Eudora Welty
                       ~ 1909-2001
      ~ native of Jackson, Mississippi, 
      winner of The National Book Award 
                  & The Pulitzer Prize
   ~from “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”
                           ~ published 1982
It’s a beautiful splash of Dixie as autumn’s evening sun sparkles in a fountain in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Starry Spring Dream ...



"Life is art, paint your dreams."
                                       ~ Author Unknown

An artistic, starry eyed view of water trickling over rocks on a beautiful spring day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. 

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Brisk Beauty ...


"The leaves fall, the wind blows,
and the farm country slowly changes 
from the summer cottons into
its winter wools."
                        ~ Henry Beston
                                ~ 1888-1968

Chilly November winds whip the waters this weekend at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, but that doesn't detract from the beauty of this autumn day at the lake in the shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge.

Leaser Lake's namesake is Frederick Leaser, who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church.
His homestead is located one mile north of the lake.

 

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Chasing Sunset ...

"Life is no brief candle...
it is a sort of splendid torch ...
make it burn as brightly as possible ..."
                               ~ George Bernard Shaw
                                             1856-1950

 A man on his personal watercraft
chases a summer sunset on the golden
waters of the Delaware River near the
historic Northampton Street Bridge 
(commonly called The Free Bridge)
that spans Phillipsburg, New Jersey
and Easton, Pennsylvania.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Painting The Chill ...


"December's wintry breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane,
obscuring summer's memory..."
 ~ John Geddes

The chilly waters of the Jordan Creek spill over Wehr's Dam, Orefield, Pennsylvania
 after this season's first snowfall.