Trailing In The Leaves ...

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. 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

A sunlit late October afternoon reflects in the Delaware Canal as I was trailing in the leaves along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).

I captured this image after starting out from the Forks of the Delaware Trailhead at Delaware Canal State Park, Easton, Pennsylvania.

The trail is positioned between the Delaware River and Delaware Canal, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

 

October's Turn ...

“To everything (turn, turn, turn)

There is a season (turn, turn, turn)

And a time for every purpose under heaven …”

        ~ “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

         ~ recorded by “The Byrds”

                ~ 1965

“Turn! Turn! Turn!” or “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) is a song written by Pete Seeger in the 1950s & first recorded in 1959. The lyrics ~ except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines ~ consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.

It’s October’s turn to show off its brilliant fall foliage as the leaves turn to autumn hues on a beautiful late October evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

The Gentle Autumn ...

“Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.”

     ~ Edwin Way Teale

         ~ 1899-1980

          ~ American naturalist,

                   photographer & writer

        ~Teale’s works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 – 1980. He is perhaps best known for his series “The American Seasons,” four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.

The changing color of autumn leaves gently cascade over the Little Lehigh Creek on an early November day at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.