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2013 Holiday Gift Guide, Part I: Mammon
Chanukah is — alas — just about over. But the season of gift-giving has only just begun. As I gaze down into my crystal ball, the shape of the rest of December comes sharply into focus. I see cheerful...
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Dispatch from the Land of Ice and Snow
Philadelphia’s week of inclement weather has not so far proved particularly picturesque. But it has reminded me that I have photographs from the much more beautiful ice and snow I enjoyed a few weeks...
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Fowl is Fair
The residents of the McNeil Avian Center at the Philadelphia Zoo were particularly friendly on this visit. It is an excellent exhibit, anyhow, in which most of the birds roam free with the guests,...
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Spring is here!
Philadelphia’s weather report may call for one last coughing gasp of snow on Tuesday, but in my house, it’s feeling particularly vernal. The first seedlings — cucumbers, I think — have pushed their...
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Buff-Crested Bustard, and Friends
No food here, alas. But I cannot resist posting these photos from yesterday’s trip to the McNeil Avian Center at the Philadelphia Zoo. This guy’s a buff-crested bustard, and the strangeness of his...
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Walt Whitman, Now in 3D
There is no originality at all in this, but as part of a quick experiment, I’ve taken a stereo card from the 19th century, and turned it into an animated GIF. I really like the effect. It looks very...
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Picking Blackberries in New Jersey
So this happened: It’s been a couple of weeks now since it happened. But it was a ton of fun, highly rewarding, and I mostly just wanted to share the pictures in what amounts to a sort of quiet brag. I...
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MLK Day of Action, Resistance, and Empowerment
Today, to mark Martin Luther King Day, I participated in the MLK Day of Action, Resistance, and Empowerment. It was a rally in which several thousand (see update) of us congregated outside of the...
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Olympus 12mm at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
This is (alas!) not food. Food will definitely make its return to this here cooking blog. But in the meantime, I spent yesterday afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a new (to me) camera...
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Fall Fungus, by the Wissahickon Creek
Ever since Elizabeth and Hana each made their posts about foraging last summer, I have been unable to turn off the part of my brain that notices interesting mushrooms. This one I found poking out of...
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