~ Jack Kerouac
~ 1922-1969
It’s a mad orange sunset as a summer sundown creates silhouetted beauty as it sweeps across Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in this abstract image I captured on a beautiful late August evening.
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
~ Lilly Pulitzer
~1931 ~ 2013
It’s always summer somewhere ~ what a wonderful thought, as summer is my most favorite of seasons!
Kayakers in the distance drift through the beauty of a serene summer afternoon on a beautiful mid-July day on Leaser Lake, in shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.
Leaser Lake’s namesake is Frederick Leaser, an American patriot who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church for protection during the Revolutionary War. His homestead is located one mile north of the lake.
Leaser Lake was built by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for water-oriented recreation and opened for public use in 1971. Lehigh County leases this area from the state and operates and maintains the park. The land north of the lake was purchased by the county in the early 1970s. It is entirely wooded and is used for nature study and as an addition to the State Game Lands No. 217.
“Kindness is like snow ~ it beautifies everything it covers.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
~ 1883 ~ 1931
The cold winter waters of the Monocacy Creek spill over Monocacy Falls in a cascading dance before the waters ramble past the snowy banks through Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on a beautiful February afternoon, three days after the region was blanketed with 27.3 inches of snow.
