Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Paint Your Dreams ...



“Life is art, paint your dreams.”
                         ~ author unknown
An artist’s palette and paintbrush colorfully announce an art show on a sunny mid-April day at Lehigh Gap Nature Center.
  
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 Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (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.


Monday, April 23, 2018

Young Deer Of Spring ...


“Love … it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
                     ~ Khalil Gibran
                         ~ 1883-1931
What a sweet sight to see these beautiful white-tailed deer in spring, as a beautiful button buck and young doe gaze at each other as they graze on an April evening in the park.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

After The April Rain ...


“Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” 
                      ~ Byron Caldwell Smith
After soaring temperatures into the 80s in mid-April spurred it to bloom, my favorite pink magnolia tree still looks beautiful just after a cold spring rain at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.