Happy Year of the Horse!
#NewYear @horses
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Happy Year of the Horse!
#NewYear @horses
Lamp shadow, Washington Square, Philadelphia
#photography #Philadelphia
Well, I'm just blown away by this review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year by the inimitable @arleysorg.bsky.social over @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...
tall trees, greenery, and a diagonal sunbeam
New Jersey woods, 2025 (looking forward to eventually seeing chlorophyll again!)
#photography #landscape
If you're looking for something weird and dark to read I have a story up at The Dark about growing up poor in Toronto, (write what you know); loneliness; effigies; and the dark dreams of languid summers.
www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/
Columbus Square Park, Philadelphia
#Photography #thicktrunktuesday
Gormenghast article by @aranws.bsky.social!
‘Yes, yes,’ said the other...‘We ought to have what she has.’
‘And what is that, my very dear ladyships?’ queried Doctor
Prunesquallor, tilting his head at them.
‘Power’, they replied blankly and both together, as though they had rehearsed the scene.
South Philadelphia skyline
#photography #Philadelphia
How many overlords were there? Just the one sitting at the center of the long, long table, surrounded by its heavily armed servitors? George realized that he had no idea. Knowledge didn’t stretch that far anymore. Knowledge had become like broken glass underfoot, sharp and dangerous and useless.
Lorenzo the Magnificent!
The 556-foot-long (169 m) bridge, with stonemasonry abutments and two stonemasonry piers, with three Pratt-type pin-connected trusses, was built in 1894–1895 at a cost of $262,000 by Filbert Porter & Co. under the direction of Chief Engineer George Smedley Webster (1855–1931) of the Philadelphia Department of Public Works and James H. Windrim, director of the Department of Public Works. The bridge was designed as a double-decker bridge, but the upper deck was never built for lack of funds. The bridge carries two lanes of vehicular traffic on a 26-foot-wide (7.9 m) roadway, with 7-foot (2.1 m) sidewalks on either side, for a total width of 40 feet (12 m). (Wikipedia)
Falls Bridge, excavation of west abutment, 1894. Steam shovels and dynamite time! And, a nice glimpse of the Schuylkill at the upper left. Much more here: phillyhistory.org
#Philadelphia #history #photography #bridges
Pier, Atlantic City NJ
#photography #NewJersey
"Weirding, in this sense, is an active unsettling, expressed both in the reading and the affective poetics that trouble, unsettle, and actively weird its material."
No parallels at all...
England in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Congratulations!
Sure - Smedley of the Marines! He narked out the Businessman’s Plot as well. Great Philadelphian!
Delaware River at Chester, Pennsylvania.
#photography #landscape #Riverscape #Chester
Here's a nice article on Victorian ghost photographs. These used the same double exposure techniques as the same age's spirit photographs, but for purposes of narrative/melodrama. A lot more fun, at least to my taste!
#photography #history #ghosts #Victorian
rarehistoricalphotos.com/stereoscopic...
FDR Park, Philadelphia, 2025.
#photography #blackandwhite #lookup #Philadelphia
Here is a close relative of the Philadelphia porch lion (see yesterday's post) - the South Philly stoop cat. Green eyes and a 1,000-yard stare!
#Philadelphia #Urban #Cats
A Philadelphia porch lion roars at the street. March 2025.
#Philadelphia #photography #urban #lion
Looks like it was a peaceful morning on the Delaware back in 1918. Photo from the Philly archives, Pier 8 North, Cherry Street side. Much more here: phillyhistory.org
#Philadelphia #history #photography #blackandwhite #urban
St. Martin and the Beggar, French stained glass, 1245-1248. Recently saw this at the Baltimore Museum of Art. #art #stainedglass #Baltimore #museumsky
View from roof of Divine Lorraine Hotel (pre-renovation), Philadelphia.
#photography #cityscape #urbanphotography #Philadelphia
Judith Schaechter makes amazing contemporary stained glass art that is deeply informed by medieval practices. Can't wait to see this immersive piece when it opens at the Michener in April. #art #stainedglass #Schaechter #Michener
michenerartmuseum.org/exhibition/j...
1906 photo of the Carrol School Farm Garden. All the other photos of school gardens from this period show docile children tending to vegetables.
These Philly kids, on the other hand, seem to have taken over the garden, trashed it, and started a bonfire... At least they look happy! #Philadelphia
The school garden movement of the progressive era took public school children outside to tend gardens – good for their characters and hey, free labor!
The photo in the linked post is from Phillyhistory.org
More on school gardens here: www.nal.usda.gov/collections/...
This!
South Philadelphia, evening, 2025.
#photography #blueskyartshow #light