A Trail Of Sugar ...

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

                          ~ John Steinbeck

                                   ~ 1902-1968

Traces of a Christmas Eve snowfall remain the day after Christmas to sugar the Saucon Rail Trail, Hellertown, Pennsylvania as sunset looms to close a beautiful but very cold day.

Southern Fishin' ...

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

          ~ Aesop

            ~ born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.

A Juvenile Little Blue Heron fishes its dinner out of the lagoon as sunset approaches on a late October evening in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Winter White ...

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

                  ~Lewis Carroll

                        ~ 1832-1898

                  ~  “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

                                 ~ 1865

                                      &

                   “Through The Looking Glass”

                               ~ 1871 
The first snowfall of the season gently wraps the landscape in the beauty of winter white at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania as sunset draws near. Though the first snow fell December 9, 2017, a few weeks before the official beginning of winter, it blanketed the late autumn day with hushed winter beauty.