November Comes Softly To Wehr's Dam ...

 “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

              ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

                          ~1896-1940

The afternoon sun pirouettes on the waters of the Jordan Creek as they spill over Wehr’s Dam in this painterly, HDR image I shot November 1, 2021.

The Jordan Creek continues to then flow 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.

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.

 

Wintertide At Wehr's Dam ...

      “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”

      ~ Virginia Woolf

      ~ 1882-1941

Its icy beauty in infrared as winter infuses Wehr’s Dam with a frozen splendor as sunset dances cheek to cheek with twilight at the finish of a late February day. 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, at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.

 

The Fishing Life At Wehr's Dam ...

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”

             ~ Herbert Hoover

             ~ 1874-1964

    ~ 31^st President of the

              United States of America

                ~ 1929-1933

Young and old alike share in the fine, simple joy of the fishing life amid the quiet beauty of a spring evening, as the waters of the Jordan Creek spill over Wehr’s Dam to then flow beneath Wehr’s Covered Bridge in this monochrome capture I shot in mid-May.

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