Rainspotting At Wehr's Dam ...

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

     ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

        ~ 1807-1882

I spotted this Great Blue Heron, looking amazingly small standing in the Jordan Creek at Wehr’s Dam, as an early evening rain falls on June 21, 2021 – the first full day of summer – at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

The boardwalk of the Jordan Creek Greenway can be seen behind the dam.

The waters of the Jordan Creek spill over the dam to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge.

The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.

 

It Is All A Great Strange Dream ...

 “Happiness consists in knowing it is all a great strange dream.”

                       ~ Jack Kerouac

                            ~1922-1969

A man walks his dog (hidden by grass) on a path that traipses through a field of infrared on a beautiful mid-June evening along the Jordan Creek Greenway at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania, as spring prepares to segue to summer in this abstract image.

Mergansers On The Eve Of Spring ...

“It is about five o’clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes ~ autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

     ~ Elizabeth Bowen

      ~ Irish novelist

      ~ 1899-1973

In the waning hours of winter, these common merganser drake & hen ducks dream of the arrival of spring in the early evening of the last day of winter ~ March 19, 2021 ~ in the waters of the Jordan Creek along the Jordan Creek Greenway at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

The common merganser or goosander is a large seaduck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia & North America. The common merganser eats fish and nests in holes in trees.

 

October Over The Cornfield ...

 “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.”

         ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

          ~ 1804-1864

The corn is no longer green, but autumn’s beauty colors an early October evening along the Jordan Creek Greenway at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.