Snow Covered ...

“What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?”

    ~ Anna Neagle

       ~ 1904-1986

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, DBE (Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) known professionally as Anna Neagle, was a popular English stage and film actress, singer and dancer.

The snow covered Geiger’s Covered Bridge paints a peaceful late winter scene on an early March day.

Geiger’s Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered bridge in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. It 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. It can be accessed from The Covered Bridge Trail of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Spring Alightment ...

“Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.”

                   ~ author unknown

A Red Admiral butterfly alights on a late spring afternoon in early June along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.

In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware and the D&L Trail.

The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Cute As A Button ...

“A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.”

                            ~ Paul Oxton

                           ~ founder & director

                  of Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation

My favorite white-tailed deer button buck is cute as a button enjoying an apple during a January sunset in the park as his mama doe stood closeby.

It was 15 degrees with sub-zero windchills when I captured this sweet image, but it warmed my heart to see Buttons – as I call him – enjoy his apple!