Spring Comes Softly To Wehr's Dam ...

“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”

        ~ Lewis Grizzard

          ~ 1946 ~ 1994

    ~ American writer & humorist, known for his Southern demeanor & commentary on the American South.

Hints of the golden hour pirouette on the waters of the Jordan Creek as they spill over Wehr’s Dam in this painterly, HDR image I shot as moody March skies and a windy day ushered in the first day of spring March 20, 2022.

A pair of snow geese can be seen at left on the Jordan Creek, which continues to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

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

The boardwalk of the Jordan Creek Greenway can be seen behind the dam.

Softly Bloom The Bluebells ...

“The bluebell is the sweetest flower

That waves in summer air

Its blossoms have the mightiest power

To soothe my spirits care.”

     ~ “The Bluebell”

       ~ Emily Bronte

        ~ 1818-1848

        ~ published 1846

Sunlight dances across the beguiling bluebells blooming softly in early April near the banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania in this shot I captured on a beautiful spring afternoon.

The blooming of the multitude of Lock Ridge bluebells – also called grape hyacinth – is a clarion call of spring in the Lehigh Valley, drawing many people to photograph and glimpse their beauty in the span of the few weeks they bloom.

 

Lock Ridge Park is a park built around an historic iron ore blast furnace just outside Alburtis, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. The park preserves portions of the former Lock Ridge Iron Works, which dates back to 1868. The 59-acre park was opened in August 1976.

 

 

Full Stop Winter ...

 “Over the winter glaciers, I see the summer glow. And through the wind-piled snowdrift, the warm rosebuds below.”

          ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                ~ 1803 ~ 1882

The stoplight at the intersection of Cedar Crest Boulevard & Broadway reflects in the creek at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania after a fresh mid-March snowfall has blanketed the landscape in this painterly, HDR image I captured in the waning days of winter.