Monday, June 18, 2018

Here's Looking At You, Kid ...


“Here’s looking at you kid …”
       ~  Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman
 in the 1942 classic film “Casablanca”

A beautiful white-tailed deer button buck turns to glance across the Jordan Creek as if to say “Here’s looking at you, kid” before leaving to continue his trek through the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on a late May evening.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

The Bridge That Carried You Over ...


“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
                           ~ George Colman
                                      ~ 1762-1836
 A car begins to cross the Glendon Hill Road River Bridge, Easton, Pennsylvania, which carries it over the Lehigh River on a bright and beautiful late spring afternoon that feels like a bridge to summer in this high contrast monochrome shot I captured in early June.

Built circa 1935 and rehabilitated in 2012, this three-span, 357 foot long, riveted steel Pratt through truss bridge carries one lane of traffic and a sidewalk over the Lehigh River and is one of the entrances to Hugh Moore Park, site of a trailhead of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail.)

Hugh Moore Park is a City of Easton park, located between the Lehigh River and the Lehigh Canal. The park was once home to the first industrial park in the United States and is now home to the National Canal Museum, Josiah White II canal boat, and Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor offices.

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

Glendon was originally formed as a part of Williams Township, and was incorporated as a borough December 18, 1867.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Spring Supper ...


“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
               ~ Aesop
         ~ Born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.
A Small Green Heron fishes its supper out of the pond on a beautiful spring evening in early June at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.