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"This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius ... Let the sun shine in Open up your heart and let it shine on in ..." ~ "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" ~ "Hair" ~ 1967
When I saw these almost magical sunflares just before sunset at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, I thought of the song "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In." I shot this just a little while before the Supermoon in August.
"Climb every mountain, Ford every stream ... Till you find your dream." ~ "Climb Every Mountain" ~ "The Sound of Music" ~ Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1959
Even the family dog seems to enjoy the summer morning ride to Ford the Jordan Creek at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have enjoyed driving through the creek.
The simple joys that make a child's summer magical are captured as this girl tries to catch tadpoles in the Jordan Creek on a summer afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind, Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine ... Laughing eyes and simple ways And quiet nights and gentle days with you. Memories, memories, sweet memories." ~ "Memories" ~ recorded by the great Elvis Presley, 1968
Geiger's Covered Bridge evokes sweet nostalgia on a summer morning in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. The bridge is a 112-foot-long Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1860. It has vertical plank siding and an entry portal of stepped square planks. It crosses the Jordan Creek and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The bridge can be accessed from The Covered Bridge Trail at the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"We live in the world when we love it." ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~ 1861-1941 Beautiful monarch butterfly savors summer's sweet nectar on a recent morning at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
A Great White Egret, also known as a Great White Heron, is on the hunt in the sun splashed waters of the Jordan Creek on a summer morning at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"Silence is golden, but my eyes still see ..." ~ "Silence Is Golden" ~ The Four Seasons 1964
A man takes in the silent beauty of a summer golden hour at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. The 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 to the north of the lake.
"Life is like a butterfly, you can chase it, or you can let it come to you." ~ Ruth Brown Though he has an intent gaze and orange and black coloring, this is not a tiger, but an Eastern Comma Butterfly.
This beautiful papillon pauses at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a summer evening before once again taking flight.
"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar..." ~ William Faulkner ~1897-1962 ~ Southern American author & Nobel Prize Laureate "The Sound and The Fury" ~ 1929 A high contrast monochrome and painterly view of the Lehigh Valley on a summer evening from one of the beautiful summits at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"How green was my valley then ... and the valley of them that have gone."
~ "How Green Was My Valley" ~ Richard Llewellyn 1939
The Lehigh Valley is wrapped in the lush green of summer in this view from one of the beautiful summits at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe wears a happy face after eating apples in the park on a spring evening. I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns for the past two years.
Thisilldous Eatery provides a great place to stop and sit in the shade on a summer afternoon on Front Street in Belvidere, New Jersey, a charming and historic town on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
"...A million tommorrows shall all pass away Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today." ~ "Today" ~ Randy Sparks New Christy Minstrels 1964
A man paddles through a magical like sunflare during a summer golden hour at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. The 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 to the north of the lake.
"When the deep purple falls ... through the mist of a memory you wander back to me ... here in my deep purple dreams."
~ "Deep Purple" ~ composed by Peter DeRose, 1933 ~ lyrics by Mitchell Parish, 1938 Twilight sweeps across the summer sky like deep purple dreams at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Yes, she has them all on the run, but her heart belongs to just one Her heart belongs to Tangerine ..." ~ "Tangerine" ~ Victor Schertzinger & Johnny Mercer 1941
With beautiful tangerine colored wings, an Eastern Comma Butterfly rests on a summer day on a bench in Garett D. Wall Park, Belvidere, New Jersey, a charming and historic town on the banks of the Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
I always love photographing country churches such as Frieden's Evangelical Lutheran Church, which dates back to 1793. The Sunday afternoon sunlight streams on the church nestled in rural Center Valley, Pennsylvania on a summer's day.
"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.
Ella Fitzgerald's "My One And Only Love" sets the jazzy backdrop for the this celebration of the splendor that is spring showcased in my original nature photos. My greatest joy as a photographer is harmonizing my favorite original photos to music to create a lingering snapshot of the season.
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~1803-1882 Sunset hues begin to steal across the summer sky over Easton, Pennsylvania as viewed from across the Delaware River in Phillipsburg, New Jersey next to the historic Northampton Street Bridge, commonly called The Free Bridge.
The bridge that spans the states was completed in 1896 and survived damage from massive flooding from Hurricane Diane in 1955. It underwent a thorough restoration in 1990.
"But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues ..." ~ "Summertime Blues" ~ 1958
The song says there ain't no cure for the summertime blues, and there ain't no cure for monochrome Great Blue! This Great Blue Heron sits for a portrait in high contrast monochrome on a summer evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just like me they long to be close to you." "Close To You" ~ Burt Bacharach & Hal David 1963
Perhaps these mourning doves were thinking of the song made popular by the Carpenters as they shared a spot on the wire on a summer afternoon in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer yearling strikes a regal pose in the park on a summer evening. I've been blessed to photograph this young buck's mama doe and her fawns for two years.
