Snow Dance Through The Pines ...

“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”

   ~ Frank Bolles

       ~ 1856 ~ 1894

  ~American writer, naturalist & secretary of Harvard University

A fresh February snowfall dances through the pine trees, draping them in a beautiful winter garland as pinecones dangle from the branches, in this image I captured at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

Silver Frosting ...

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”

      ~ Sylvia Plath

       ~ 1932-1963

        ~ “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”

             ~ published 1982

The landscape glistens with winter’s beauty after a fresh February snowfall has blanketed it with a silver frosting at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

Winter Afternoon ...

“Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.”

                  ~ Henry Williamson

                     ~ 1895-1977

    ~English army officer, naturalist, 

                farmer & ruralist writer

Cascading waters frozen in harmony illuminate winter’s beauty along the snow sugared trail of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) that hugs the Kittatinny Ridge at Lehigh Gap on a January afternoon in this monochrome shot.

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 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.