Watercolor Bluebells ...

“Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.”

             ~ Philip James Bailey

                   ~ English poet

                               ~1816 ~ 1902

Beguiling bluebells bloom softly in early April as they dance in the afternoon sun near the banks of the Swabia Creek at Lock Ridge Park and Furnace Museum, Alburtis, Pennsylvania in this painterly image I captured on a beautiful spring day.

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.

 

The Grasshopper ...

“My dear young fellow,’ the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, ‘there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.”

                   ~ Roald Dahl

                       ~ British author

                           ~ 1916 ~ 1990

              ~ from “James & the Giant Peach”

                        ~ published 1961

A grasshopper takes in the wonder of autumn’s beauty on an early October afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Panning For Gold ...

“Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.”

     ~ Raghubir Singh

      ~Indian photographer

       ~ 1942-1999

The early evening sun is panning for gold as glints of the golden hour whirl through the waters of the Jordan Creek spilling over Wehr’s Dam in this painterly, HDR image I shot on the first day of spring, March 20, 2022.

The Jordan Creek continues to then flow beneath 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.