“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.”
~ Jack Kerouac
~1922 ~ 1969
Winter’s icy beauty infuses Wehr’s Dam with a frozen splendor that makes the waters of the Jordan Creek look like vanilla ice on a late January day.
The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841, at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
~ Lewis Grizzard
~ 1946 ~ 1994
~ American writer & humorist, known for his Southern demeanor & commentary on the American South.
The feeling of early spring pirouettes on the waters of the Jordan Creek as they spill over Wehr’s Dam, built in 1904, to flow beneath the historic Wehr’s Covered Bridge, creating a picturesque early spring postcard at Wehr’s Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The wooden covered bridge in South Whitehall Township is a three-span, 117-foot long Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has horizontal siding and a gable roof. It crosses the Jordan Creek and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
I shot this image in the late afternoon of March 24, 2024, less than a week after spring had once again awakened the land.
“Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.”
~ Raghubir Singh
~Indian photographer
~ 1942-1999
The early evening sun is panning for gold as glints of the golden hour whirl through the waters of the Jordan Creek spilling over Wehr’s Dam in this painterly, HDR image I shot on the first day of spring, March 20, 2022.
The Jordan Creek continues to then flow beneath beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
The dam, built in 1904, is next to Wehr’s Covered Bridge, which dates back to 1841.
The boardwalk of the Jordan Creek Greenway can be seen behind the dam.
