So, a new year is upon us and I’ve let my blog posting lapse considerably since the holidays. My Christmas and New Year holiday was enjoyable for the most part. I started things off with a stomach virus but have since recovered and feeling better than ever, lol. A week into the new year and I’ve gotten my body back to the shape it was in before the lazy holidays. My resolutions for 2008 are to: maintain and improve my fitness (taking no days off from exercise (calisthenics, cardio light weight training and breathing exercises). Without further ado are some photos spanning Christmas Eve to today:
Christmas
Christmas Eve at my cousins house in Old City. We fail at group photos. Why is it so hard to get people to look at the camera when you’re taking their picture?
Christmas Day was so exciting, santa came. (that’s what Mrs. Clause said, oooh!)
A Christmas birthday. Her birthday is on Christmas Day. I realize this photo lacks context because the birthday cake with lit candles isn’t viewable, but I liked the angle and b&w tones.
The Delaware Canal
The 60-mile Delaware Canal is the only remaining continuously intact canal of the great towpath canal building era of the early and mid-19th century. Today, the canal retains almost all of its features as they existed during its century of commercial operation.
The Delaware Canal connected with the Lehigh Navigation System at Easton and helped to develop the anthracite coal industry in the Upper Lehigh Valley. These canals provided a convenient and economical means of transporting coal to Philadelphia, New York, and the eastern seaboard.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/delawarecanal.aspx
New Years Day Photo Drive-by’s
Everyone’s off of the ice so it can be smoothed by a Zamboni.
Industrial meets nature on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA
The mighty Schuylkill from Boat House Row
Something Random
A funny sign I saw at work . "Giant Headless Women and Wheelchair Accessible" Taken with Apple iPhone
Jan. 8: Wissahickon Creek Photowalk
I picked an unseasonably warm (60F) January morning to walk through the nature preserve, Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia
Babbling Brook
Uproot.
USNS GRASP docked at Penn’s Landing
HATE Philadelphia sticker on the 8th Street ramp off I-676
This seagull wouldn’t move for anyone. There were people walking, running and biking by me and he just stayed put and let me make this photo.
The military rescue-salvage ship, USNS GRASP, docked at Penn’s Landing. Philadelphia’s Blue Cross Riverrink situated in front.
The American Flag waves while the military rescue-salvage ship, USNS GRASP, docks at Penn’s Landing.
