"Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream ...
Till you find your dream."
~ "Climb Every Mountain"
~ "The Sound of Music"
~ Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1959
Even the family dog seems to enjoy the summer morning ride to
Ford the Jordan Creek at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have
enjoyed driving through the creek.
The simple joys that make a child's summer magical are
captured as this girl tries to catch tadpoles in the Jordan Creek on a summer afternoon
at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind,
Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine ...
Laughing eyes and simple ways
And quiet nights and gentle days with you.
Memories, memories, sweet memories."
~ "Memories"
~ recorded by the great
Elvis Presley, 1968
Geiger's Covered Bridge evokes sweet nostalgia on a summer morning
in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. The bridge 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.
The bridge can be accessed from The Covered Bridge Trail
at the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
The expression on this Elk's face seems to say "Welcome To My World"
on a summer afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"We live in the world when we love it."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
~ 1861-1941
Beautiful monarch butterfly savors summer's sweet nectar on a recent morning at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"It is only a paper moon ...
It is only a canvas sky ...
But it wouldn't be make-believe if
You believe in me."
~ "It's Only A Paper Moon"
~ written by Harold Arlen
lyrics by E.Y. Harburg & Billy Rose
1933
The supermoon of August 10, 2014 -
the largest full moon of the year -
rises in beauty at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A Great White Egret, also known as a Great White Heron, is on the hunt in the sun splashed waters of the Jordan Creek
on a summer morning at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer fawn poses on a summer evening
just off the Ironton Rail Trail, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
The Martin Building colors the corner of South Main and Stockton Streets
in the historic downtown of Phillipsburg, New Jersey on
a summer evening.
"Silence is golden, but my eyes still see ..."
~ "Silence Is Golden"
~ The Four Seasons
1964
A man takes in the silent beauty of a summer
golden hour at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.
The lake's namesake is Frederick Leaser, who in
September 1777 with his farm team hauled
The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed
in Zion Reformed Church. His homestead is located one mile
to the north of the lake.
"Life is like a butterfly, you can chase it,
or you can let it come to you."
~ Ruth Brown
Though he has an intent gaze and orange and black coloring, this is not a tiger, but an Eastern Comma Butterfly.
This beautiful papillon pauses at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a summer evening before once again taking flight.
"Some days in late August at home are like this,
the air thin and eager like this,
with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar..."
~ William Faulkner
~1897-1962
~ Southern American author
& Nobel Prize Laureate
"The Sound and The Fury"
~ 1929
A high contrast monochrome and painterly view of the Lehigh Valley on a summer evening from one of the beautiful summits at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
"How green was my valley then ...
and the valley of them that have gone."
~ "How Green Was My Valley"
~ Richard Llewellyn
1939
The Lehigh Valley is wrapped in the lush green
of summer in this view from one of the beautiful
summits at Trexler Nature Preserve,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Beautiful white-tailed deer doe wears a happy face
after eating apples in the park on a spring evening.
I've been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns
for the past two years.
Thisilldous Eatery provides a great place to stop and sit in the shade on a summer afternoon on Front Street in Belvidere, New Jersey, a charming and historic town on the banks of the
Pequest and Delaware Rivers.
"Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the
same time."
~ Thomas Merton
1915-1968
Red traffic lights from across the street
reflect in the creek on a midsummer
evening at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
"...A million tommorrows
shall all pass away
Ere I forget all the joy
that is mine today."
~ "Today"
~ Randy Sparks
New Christy Minstrels
1964
A man paddles through a magical like
sunflare during a summer golden hour
at Leaser Lake, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.
The lake's namesake is Frederick Leaser,
who in September 1777 with his farm team
hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia
to Allentown where it was concealed
in Zion Reformed Church. His homestead is located
one mile to the north of the lake.
"When the deep purple falls ...
through the mist of a memory
you wander back to me ...
here in my deep purple dreams."
~ "Deep Purple"
~ composed by Peter DeRose, 1933
~ lyrics by Mitchell Parish, 1938
Twilight sweeps across the summer sky
like deep purple dreams at
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A Great Blue Heron seems to have something to say
in the trees of Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania, on a summer evening.
A Great Blue Heron
is keenly aware of
his surroundings
from the trees
on a summer evening
at Trexler Memorial Park,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.