Fording Winter ...

“How many lessons of faith and beauty should we lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

               ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

                      ~ 1823-1911

                  ~from “April Days”

                         ~ 1861

A vehicle crosses the icy waters at the Ford of the Jordan Creek, one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph, at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

I shot this frosty scene as the light of the looming sunset waltzes on the icy waters soon after the historic January Blizzard of 2016. In a winter shorn of snow until the blizzard, the storm plonked 31 inches of snow on nearby Allentown in a 24 hour period.

 For more than 50 years visitors have enjoyed driving through the Jordan Creek. Kids and kids at heart cite “Crossing the Water” as one of their fondest memories.

 

No Fording Today ...

“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”

 ~ Jack Kerouac

 ~ 1922-1969

With the waters running high after a recent rainfall, there is no fording today, so stop and soak in the beauty of summer, my most favorite of seasons, at the Ford of the Jordan Creek, which is closed to traffic on this early September evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, in this selective color image I shot in the waning summer.

 

For more than 50 years visitors have enjoyed driving through the Jordan Creek. Kids and kids at heart cite “Crossing the Water” as one of their fondest memories.

 

The ford at the preserve is one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph.

 

Summer At The Ford ...

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing page and I could do anything I wanted.”

     ~ Jack Kerouac

      ~ 1922-1969

The beauty of summer, my most favorite of seasons, wraps around the ford of the Jordan Creek on a beautiful late August evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

For more than 50 years kids and kids at heart have enjoyed driving through the creek.

The ford at the preserve is one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph.