Two's Company ...

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

    ~ J.M. Barrie

      ~ 1860-1937

     from “The Little White Bird”

               ~ 1902

  ~   Barrie is the creator of Peter Pan, who first appeared in “The Little White Bird”

Two’s company for these sweet tree swallow fledglings – until their mother delivers supper to the nesting box on the second evening of summer, June 21, 2020, at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, then it’s three’s company! But for now they dream about supper for a little while longer.

 

While there are young or eggs in the nest, adult tree swallows frequently dive bomb intruders, including curious humans, and attempt to drive them from the area – I personally know this to be true, and so does my camera!

 

No Fording Today ...

“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”

 ~ Jack Kerouac

 ~ 1922-1969

With the waters running high after a recent rainfall, there is no fording today, so stop and soak in the beauty of summer, my most favorite of seasons, at the Ford of the Jordan Creek, which is closed to traffic on this early September evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, in this selective color image I shot in the waning summer.

 

For more than 50 years visitors have enjoyed driving through the Jordan Creek. Kids and kids at heart cite “Crossing the Water” as one of their fondest memories.

 

The ford at the preserve is one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph.

 

Pony Up The Patriotism ...

“I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land.”

                ~ Ronald Reagan

                  ~ 1911-2004

             ~40^th President of 

              the United States of America

                    ~ 1981-1989

The historic 1860 Walnut Street Pony Bridge “ponies up the patriotism” festooned with American flag bunting in time for Memorial Day in this painterly, HDR image I shot as the bunting reflects in the Saucon Creek in the light of May’s early evening sun.

The bridge, built in 1860, is the last remaining cast and wrought iron bridge in North America. It is located on the grounds of the historic Heller-Wagner Grist Mill, just off the Saucon Rail Trail in Hellertown, Pennsylvania.