Walk across the Wissahickon
A young man crosses Wisshickon Creek by foot at Valley Green, not knowing how deep the water is or rocky the bottom.
Category: WALKING
Veterans with team red white and blue hike with weighted rucksacks
Military veterans and civilian supporters, members of TeamRWB hike with weighted rucksacks, one of their physical and social activities to promote the well-being and health of vets.
Paint the Cresheim Bridge Mural! Open Call for Artists
Things are looking up. Mural artists including ex-con are expected to submit designs for mural art on abandoned railway bridge in Northwest Philadelphia. #CresheimTrailMural
Octegenarian trash picks large mattress, enlists help
Eigthy-one year artist old trash picks mattress, enlists athletic looking pedestrian to help her move it.
Vet with PTSD dog carries flag on solo walk for fallen comrades
Iraqi war veteran commemorates fallen battalion comrades on Memorial Day with long solo march carrying large US flag accompanied by PTSD therapy German Shepherd dog.
She wrangles millipedes and beetles
A thousand little legs locomote along the slender hands of an Academy of Natural Sciences educator. Her painted fingernails are brown and shiny just like [Read More…]
Collapse attorney’s tire collapsed by pothole
Driving my daughter from Chestnut Hill to her job in Roxborough Saturday morning, we passed a man making his way on foot down the steep [Read More…]
“Royal” pets get to romp in Wissahickon Park
The dogs being served by Queenies Pets service (“Treating Your Pets Like Royalty”) love romping around the Wissahickon Park (offleash) and swimming in the creek, [Read More…]
Laying concrete sidewalk
Watch video interview here. In Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, where many sidewalks become buckled or broken because of large tree roots , Bill Hackett of Husky [Read More…]
Can do wheelies on his wheelchair
Jim Leonard combats the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis with the assist of an advanced mobility vehicle. No glorified “seat with wheels” Leonard’s device can [Read More…]