Blue Skies Smiling At Me ...

“Blue skies smiling at me

Nothing but blue skies do I see …”

           ~ “Blue Skies”

        ~popular song written by Irving Berlin 

                   (1888-1989) in 1926

A beautiful blue jay, also called a jaybird, sees nothing but blue skies along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) near the East Penn Township Trailhead in Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania on a gorgeous early July evening.

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

Remembering A Summer Evening ...

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

      ~ Charles Bowden

         ~ journalist

           ~ 1945-2014

A beautiful summer evening in early August is worth remembering in this serene sepia image I shot on a hillside of the Central Range of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the only sound the rustling of the breeze and the chirping of birds. Perfect.

This image, nuanced with a nostalgic mood and captured in summer, my most favorite of seasons, I feel paints the meaning of journalist Charles Bowden’s words, “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

Monarch In Motion ...

“We live in the world when we love it.”

    ~Rabindranath Tagore

       ~ 1861-1941

A beautiful monarch butterfly savors the waning days of summer as it alights on a buddleia flower on a gorgeous early September afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.