“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
~ Theodore Dreiser
~1871-1945
Plein Air painter captures the rustic beauty of the Springhouse on canvas on an autumn afternoon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in this candid capture I shot in early October.
The log cabin was part of Springhouse, the summer home of General Harry C. Trexler (1854-1933), an American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown. The park is his namesake.
“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”
~ Alison Lurie
~Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist
~ born 1926
I love nature, but it can be cruel, such as in seeing this red-tailed hawk and its prey – a squirrel – on an early September evening in the waning summer at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
I was lucky enough to capture several shots of the hawk as it had its supper – though I felt so sorry for the squirrel! This was the last photo I snapped, the only one where the hawk looked up and straight at me, as if to say don’t come near my prey!
“I’m so glad I live in world where there are Octobers.”
~ L.M. Montgomery
~ 1874-1942
October’s beauty brilliantly dots the banks of the Delaware River in Raubsville, Pennsylvania on a beautiful autumn afternoon along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).I captured this shot after setting off from the Wy-Hit-Tuk Park Trailhead, Easton, Pennsylvania.
The trail is positioned between the Delaware River and Delaware Canal, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.
Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
Wy-Hit-Tuk means “river”" in the Native American language of the Lenape, the American Indians who lived throughout the Delaware River Basin at the time of European contact.
