May the coming year be filled with peace and hope for all of us. Wissahickon Diary will resume in mid January.

Apropos of nothing, other than this last day of November, 2008, has been a particularly sodden and lonely one, when there is so much uncerta...

That's CHillie. She hangs out on the northeast corner of Germantown and Southampton in Chestnut Hill. She is truly a Renaissance bear. N...

Window display, Robertson's Flowers, Chestnut Hill, Sunday afternoon.

That's Gus, according to a plaque in the sidewalk, standing in front of the Melting Pot restaurant, near the intersection of Germantown ...

Intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike, Sunday afternoon. Yesterday (Saturday, November 15) felt freakishly like summer. The t...

Update: here she is ! Erin of, well, Erin fame , will become even more famous after Saturday when she appears as a contestant on NPR's W...