Rosebud

08Feb10


Glee pours off the faces of two 5-year-olds on a perfect sledding Sunday in Narberth, the day after a storm dumped more than 2 feet of snow on the area.



Allison Moorer seduced the lunchtime crowd at WXPN’s Free at Noon concert on Friday — not bad for a woman who noted with considerable humor that she is eight months pregnant.  She said balancing a guitar on her belly was like balancing a 2-by-4 on a basketball, and that while many pregnant women revel in their condition, she had grown impatient with the process. “I wouldn’t change it for anything,” she said, “but let’s get this shit over with.”  She passed on greetings to the crowd at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, from her husband, Steve Earle. Moorer’s performance can be heard  here.



Become a tree trimmer.  This guy was about 30 feet up, pulling a chainsaw through a thick walnut branch — in the direction of his chest.  This was the tree that dropped a branch on a car the other day, and today it got its comeuppance.



Pamela Anderson dropped in on Rite Aid stores in Narberth  and Ardmore, Pa., on Saturday, surely the most glamor those shops have ever seen. She signed autographs and had her picture taken with purchasers of her new perfume line, called Malibu by Pamela Anderson.  I’ve frequented both these stores for more than 15 years and can’t remember ever seeing any employee who looked like a top-tier manager. But for her visit, curt managers and security people swarmed the stores like it was the president visiting and they were Secret Service.  Continue reading ‘Pamela does Rite Aid’



This guy is just doing his job — cleaning vines from a vine-covered wall on a building in Narberth. But if you’ve recently seen “Avatar” you can’t help but feel that on Pandora he would be plucked off his ladder by one of those flying banshee creatures and taught a lesson about the interconnectedness of all life.



Dan Vashlishan of Tannersville, Pa., and Sam Conklin of Hamlin, Pa., run the ice-cutting machine from behind a cloud of icy spray thrown up by the blade during the Tobyhanna Ice Harvesting Festival at Millpond #1 on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. The annual event commemorates the era when ice harvesting was a big business in Northeastern Pennsylvania, an era that faded after electric refrigerators became more common in the 1930s and beyond.



It wasn’t clear why squirrels would be bolstering their nest in mid-January, but there they were on Friday, two of them, frantically gnawing on low branches then charging upward into a thicket high in the pine, taking turns like some bucket brigade throwing water on a fire.



With the Jersey meadowlands spreading alongside the track like a golden quilt, a New Jersey Transit  train glides toward New York City on Jan. 9, 2010.


Mummermania

02Jan10


Mummers and spectactors alike got a break on Jan. 1 in Philadelphia when weather cooperated for the big parade, an upbeat launch to the new year and decade. Click for a 3 1/2-minute show of the comics, string bands and colorful spectators.



When you are 6, exuberance resides just below the surface, and during the holiday season there is no keeping it under wraps.