If you missed your trip to Alaska this year, consider a drive to Washington’s Crossing and take a walk on the bridge to New Jersey. I think today Washington could have crossed the river on foot! At 11 degrees, you do need to be bundled up!
As I tried to capture that just right photo, I marveled at the prime real estate these homes in Washington Crossing Historic Park occupy and wondered what hardships their owners must have encountered in the days before gas stoves, generators and indoor plumbing.
There were a few openings of moving water and I could see the geese huddling together in the water and also wondered what toll these plummeting temperatures were taking on their systems.
The Sycamores along the river provide a break in the landscape. The best way to appreciate Sycamores is in the dead of winter, in my opinion. Their mottled bark pops against the snow and blue skies. Their subdued colors are sublime.
From this vantage point from the park, it looks as though this is one piece of land, as the river is obscured by the ice and snow. To the left you can see a little pond of water–if this weather continues it’s only a matter of time before that freezes over as well.
Winter shadows are the best. It looks like I was not the only one to venture out to get some photos! Except for a few dog walkers, I was all by myself today, wondering if the skin around my eyes was going to make it.
Washington Crossing in Upper Makefield is ideally located to New York, Princeton, Philadelphia and closer yet to New Hope and Doylestown. It gets its name from where General Washington crossed the Delaware during the American Revolution.
The Nature of Delaware Valley 
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