Silver White Winters ...

“…Silver-white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favorite things …”

                   ~ “My Favorite Things”

                       ~from the 1959
       Rodgers & Hammerstein musical 
               “The Sound Of Music”  

The snowy creek shimmers with silvery beauty after a late winter snowfall on an early March evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in this infrared image.

This beauty will eventually melt into spring, but for now the silver-white winter lingers to paint a  quiet, majestic beauty.

Cold Creek December ...

“The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”

        ~ “The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise” is an American slang expression implying strong intentions subject to complete frustration by uncommon but not unforeseeable events. It presumably evokes occasional and unpredictably extreme rainfall in Appalachia, that has historically isolated one rural neighborhood or another temporarily inaccessible on several or many occasions and when most folks in the mountains use this term, that is exactly what they mean.

The cold waters of the Little Lehigh Creek gently flow through Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an early December day, as autumn prepares to segue into winter.

The Icing Over The Creek ...

“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

Icicles seemingly sing with artistic beauty in the sunshine of a winter afternoon, after forming on a fallen tree trunk over the Jordan Creek, in this high contrast monochrome shot I captured on a January day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.