Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Winter Afternoon ...


“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


Cascading waters frozen in harmony illuminate winter’s beauty along the snow sugared trail of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) that hugs the Kittatinny Ridge at Lehigh Gap on a January afternoon in this monochrome shot.


In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, 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.

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.

Monday, February 3, 2020

Kissed By Nostalgia ...


“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
           ~ Khalil Gibran
               ~ 1883-1931
I saw these X’s & O’s – symbols of hugs and kisses – etched on a tree a few weeks before Valentine’s Day 2020 at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania and presented the image in sepia to enhance a nostalgic feel.

I’m not sure how long they’ve been there, but I first photographed them in October 2014, just before Sweetest Day – that image was posted on this blog as “X’s & O’s” on October 15, 2014.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Side By Side ...


“Oh we ain’t got a barrel of money
Maybe we’re ragged and funny
But we’ll travel along singing a song
Side by side …

Through all kinds of weather
What if the sky should fall
As long as we’re together
It doesn’t matter at all…”
              ~ “Side by Side”
                  ~1927
          ~ popular song by Harry M. Woods (1896-1970), now considered a standard. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Star. Woods was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter & pianist. He composed his songs on piano, despite the fact that he was born without fingers on his left hand.

A sweet white-tailed deer doe and her yearling pose for a spring portrait on a beautiful early April evening at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.