Flocking To The Snowy Pond...

 “Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world.”

   ~ Jack Kerouac

    ~ 1922 ~ 1969

 

With a fresh snowfall clinging to the trees, Canadian Geese flock to the pond as sunset looms on a mid-January day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, painting a serene showcase of winter’s quiet beauty.

Vanilla Ice ...

“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.”

              ~ Jack Kerouac

                ~1922 ~ 1969

Winter’s icy beauty infuses Wehr’s Dam with a frozen splendor that makes the waters of the Jordan Creek look like vanilla ice on a late January day.

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

 

January ...

 “January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior striding a steady steed of snow.”

     ~ Edgar Fawcett

            ~ American novelist & poet

                  ~ 1847 ~ 1904

A tranquil snowscape paints a January afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 I captured this scene a day after a fresh snowfall and that reflects the canvas of winter’s quiet beauty.

Winter Gap ...

 “Is not January the hardest month to get through? When you have weathered that, you get into the gulf-stream of winter, nearer the shores of spring.”

                      ~Henry David Thoreau

                           ~ 1817-1862

The Lehigh Gap Bridge spans a frozen Lehigh River as the light of a looming late January sunset reflects in the icy waters and shadow dances on the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, at Lehigh Gap in this painterly, HDR image.

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 Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor Trail (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.

The Lehigh Gap Bridge was built in 1930 and rehabilitated in 1984.

Springhouse In A Twilight Snowfall ...

  “For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to  give it sweetness?”

   ~ John Steinbeck

    ~ 1902-1968

The Springhouse is nestled in winter’s beauty at the start of a late January snowfall in this painterly, HDR image I captured as twilight fell upon Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The log cabin was part of Springhouse, the summer home of General Harry Clay Trexler (1854-1933), an American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown. The park is his namesake.

O Kittatinny! ...

“I belong where there are mountains and snow and clear, crisp blue skies.”

                    ~ Tom Hiddleston

                       ~ English actor

                       ~ born 1981

The mountains, snow and clear, crisp blue skies coalesce to create a majestic winter vista on a late January afternoon where the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, is the star of the landscape along the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
 

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.

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

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.