Thursday, February 23, 2017

Trail Sugar ...



“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
                   ~ John Muir
                           ~ 1838-1914

Sunset is knocking on the door of a winter day on a serene, snow sugared stretch of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) close to the Slatington Trailhead in Slatington, Pennsylvania.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Slatington, established in 1864, is the designated Blackboard Capital of America.



Thursday, February 16, 2017

Silvered Shores ...



“… Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things …”
                  ~ “My Favorite Things”
      ~ from the 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein 
           musical "The Sound Of Music"      

A hint of sunset blushes the creek between its silvered shores after a fresh snowfall at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

This beauty will eventually melt into spring, but for now the silver-white winter lingers to paint a quiet, majestic beauty.


Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Gull On Winter's Pond ...




“Perfect speed … is being there.”
                 ~from “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”
                                                 ~ 1970
                                     ~ by Richard Bach
                                                       ~ born 1936

A Laughing Gull glides along the pond, soaking in winter’s beauty on a February evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.