Reverie And Reflection ...

“Our love is a dream, but in my reverie

I can see that this love was meant for me …

So love me as I love you in my reverie

Make my dream a reality …”

    ~ “My Reverie”

   ~ 1938 popular song with lyrics by Larry Clinton; its melody is based on the 1890 piano   piece “Reverie” by French classical composer Claude Debussy, 1862 ~ 1918

   ~ Recorded by artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby & Sarah Vaughn

When I saw this simple white bench perched with a view of trees reflecting in the Lehigh River on a beautiful early November afternoon, it made me think of Debussy’s “Reverie,” as I feel his compositions sound like art set to music. I presented the image in sepia to enhance that ethereal, dream-like mood that is reverie, and to mirror the beauty of autumn that is tinged with sadness.

I captured this shot this after setting out from the Cementon Trailhead of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Cementon, Pennsylvania, part of the Asher F. Boyer Eagle Trail section of the D&L.

 

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

 

Yellow Days ...

“I do remember when the sunlight had a special kind of brightness

And laughter held a lover’s kind of lightness, yellow days, yellow days …”

     ~ song by Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington

                           ~ 1968

 

A colorful canopy of yellow and orange hues of sugar maples at the peak of their autumn color beckon for a sunlit walk on an early November afternoon near the River Drive Trailhead of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail), in Laurys Station, North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.

 

This portion of the trail is part of the Asher F. Boyer Eagle Trail section of the D&L.

 

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

                           

 

 

 

 

Lighting The Way ...

  “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

         ~ Og Mandino

              ~ American writer

                    ~ 1923 ~ 1996

 Reflections from lights on the historic Northampton Street Bridge, commonly called the Free Bridge, trip the light fantastic as they dance in harmony on the Delaware River as a soft autumn twilight in late November wraps around historic Phillipsburg, New Jersey from my vantage point across the river in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Programmable LED lights illuminate the iconic bridge which spans the Delaware River to link Phillipsburg with Easton.

The lights were installed as part of a bridge rehabilitation/improvement project that spanned from late 2021 until spring 2023. The bridge is colloquially referred as the “Free Bridge” to distinguish it from the Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge (previously the Bushkill Street Bridge), a short distance upstream.

The bridge that spans the two states was completed in 1896 and survived massive flooding from Hurricane Diane in 1955. It underwent a thorough restoration in 1990 and is one of my very favorite places to photograph.

Historic Phillipsburg was established March 8, 1861 and named for William Phillips, an early settler of the area. The historic town of Easton was founded in 1752 and is located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Lehigh River, known as the Forks-Of-The-Delaware. Both are Delaware River Towns.

The Free Bridge can also be seen from across the Delaware River at Delaware Canal State Park, Easton, near the Forks of the Delaware Trailhead of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (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.

Wings Of Faith ...

 “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

              ~ J.M. Barrie

                  ~ 1860 ~ 1937

           ~  from “The Little White Bird”

                  ~ 1902

    ~ Barrie is the creator of Peter Pan, who first appeared in “The Little White Bird”

A female mallard duck takes flight over Monocacy Falls on a beautiful November afternoon at Monocacy Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 

The Light Fantastic Trips the Delaware ...

“To trip the light fantastic is to dance nimbly or lightly to music.”

   ~ the origin of the phrase is attributed to

        John Milton

       ~ 1608 ~ 1674

Reflections from lights on the historic Northampton Street Bridge, commonly called the Free Bridge, trip the light fantastic as they dance in harmony on the Delaware River facing Phillipsburg, New Jersey during an autumn twilight in late November.

New programmable LED lights illuminate the iconic bridge which spans the Delaware River to link Phillipsburg with Easton, Pennsylvania.

The lights were installed as part of a bridge rehabilitation/improvement project that spanned from late 2021 until spring 2023. The bridge is colloquially referred as the “Free Bridge” to distinguish it from the Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge (previously the Bushkill Street Bridge), a short distance upstream.

I shot this on Thanksgiving Eve, the night prior to the 116^th meeting of the Phillipsburg High School Stateliners and Easton Red Rovers on the football field on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023. The colors were illuminated in a salute to the annual game, which Phillipsburg won the next day 47-12 at Lafayette College’s Fisher Stadium, Easton.

The bridge that spans the two states was completed in 1896 and survived massive flooding from Hurricane Diane in 1955. It underwent a thorough restoration in 1990 and is one of my very favorite places to photograph.

Historic Phillipsburg was established March 8, 1861 and named for William Phillips, an early settler of the area. The historic town of Easton was founded in 1752 and is located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Lehigh River, known as the Forks-Of-The-Delaware. Both are Delaware River Towns.

The Free Bridge can also be seen from across the Delaware River at Delaware Canal State Park, Easton, near the Forks of the Delaware Trailhead of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (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.