I find it's difficult to capture the gloom of a rainy, overcast, dull February day with a cell phone camera, but I keep on trying. For instance:


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Remember the statue that my apartment complex is sponsoring? (If not, click HERE.) It will be situated on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, eight floors below my apartment's window. I have an excellent bird's eye view of the project ( Read more... )

At ten stories, 2100 definitely topped off about three weeks ago.


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Remember, all the way back on Tuesday, when I posted about the building going up across the Parkway?


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I began watching the construction of a new building through my wall of windows last month when it appeared above the tree line:


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One of the many reasons I love my apartment are the views out over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Last week I looked out my front door and was amazed at what I saw:

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Long ago (1948) and far away (Fayetteville, AR), my two little sisters had a kiddie record player on which they played over and over a song that started out, "We're building a city, building altogether, building for the fireman, the policeman, the teacher, too." I walk around my city, Philadelphia, and it feels like we're building a city now: ( Read more... )