Winding Through An October Morning ...

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days as delightful as those of a fine October.”

                      ~ Alexander Smith

                         ~ Scottish poet & essayist

                            ~1829-1867

Game Preserve Road winds through the historic Schlicher Covered Bridge, bathed in the morning light, on a gorgeous late October day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Schlicher’s is an historic wooden covered bridge in North Whitehall Township. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge that crosses the Jordan Creek and was constructed in 1882. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was closed for a time for needed renovations.

 

Have Faith Will Travel ...

 

“My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.”

         ~ Billy Graham

          ~ 1918-2018

   ~ American evangelist, prominent evangelical Christian figure, and ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him “among the most influential Christian leaders” of the 20^th century.

I spotted this “Jesus 2020” sign – the first I’ve ever seen – in front of Friedens United Church of Christ, Slatington, Pennsylvania and had to stop to photograph this uplifting sight as a motorcycle sped by on Route 873 on an early October evening. In these tumultuous times especially, it is a reminder that when all else is failing, Jesus is still there for us!

He’s not a third-party presidential candidate up for election in November, but thousands across the country are putting up “Jesus 2020” yard signs. More than 5,000 signs have shipped out to California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and other states from a campaign that began at Sampey Memorial Baptist Church, Ramer, Alabama.

“People need Jesus with everything that’s going on,” Joyce Hubbard, one of the Jesus 2020 co-organizers, told Fox News. He’s the only one that we can count on. He’s the one that keeps his promises. He’s already the winner.”

 

October On The May River ...

“Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”

   ~ Stonewall Jackson

   ~ 1824-1863

The last words of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, who served as a Confederate general (1861-1863) during the Civil War, and became arguably the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, and had an important part in winning many significant battles.

 

As Old Glory billows in the autumn breeze, my view from the shoreline of the May River at Bluffton Oyster Factory Park, Old Town Bluffton, South Carolina, paints a postcard of the beauty of a southern fall in the Lowcountry on a late October afternoon

 

Bluffton is situated on the north bluff of the May River, giving the Beaufort County town its name. The river winds through the Old Town area of Bluffton, which locals call “the last true coastal village of the South.”