I'm cheating today -- this photo was taken two weeks ago, on January 26. I want to spend a little more time talking about this fellow.The statue is known as Toleration, and stands as a tribute to the local Quaker tradition. It has been presiding over this spot on Rinker's Rock on the eastern ridge of the valley since 1883. To give you an idea of scale, he stands close to ten feet tall; this photo was taken from the trail at the bottom of Rinker's rock, maybe forty feet below. The Wissahickon itself runs about one hundred and fifty feet below.
The most outstanding characteristic of this statue, to me, is its obscurity. He's not easy to find, standing on a secluded outcropping of rock far from the most used trails. Most stumble upon him by accident.
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Nice statue. Tell that statue not to look for snow too hard, he may just find it. We had a few inches yesterday and it's suppose to snow another inch today. And, no I'm not looking forward to it. Where is spring????
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