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Asian street food market

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The Sunday Cambodian street food market was thriving on Labor Day weekend, including this vendor offering shrimp spring rolls, lobster balls, and a big variety of other fried items.
The street food market spreads among the trees near Picnic Area 11 at FDR Park.

FDR skatepark

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Skatepark at FDR Park, Philadelphia
One of the city’s hidden gems is a skateboard park tucked beneath Interstate 95 on the edge of FDR park in far South Philly. It’s gritty, and renowned among boarders.
The highway noise can be intense, but the skateboarders tune it out. The highway provides a roof, which means you can skate even in foul weather. The road circling FDR was recently repaved and you no longer need a 4-wheeler to get past the skate area.

March for Our Lives

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Philadelphia joined scores of other cities across the United States on March 24, 2018, in marching against gun violence and on behalf of gun control. Several thousand took part during the procession from Independence Mall to Penn’s Landing, many carrying homemade signs. The mood was serious and determined, a contrast to some other large demonstrations in recent years that had serious messages but also had a festive atmosphere. 

March for Our Lives demonstrators against gun violence moving south on Front Street toward their rally point at Penn’s Landing on Saturday, March 24, 2018.

To Market, to Market . . . for 125 years

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The governor, the mayor and a congressman turned out February 22 to help the Reading Terminal Market launch its 125th year. From left: Gov. Tom Wolf, U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, Mayor Jim Kenney, emcee Patty Jackson of WDAS radio, and Anuj Gupta, general manager of the marketplace.

 

The opening day of the 125th anniversary celebration was dubbed 1893 Day, with period costumes. (Though a sharp-eyed historian noted that not all of the costumes were true to the late 1800s!)

 

 

Hunter & the Hunted, Washington Square Park

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This hawk was taking a breather in a tree after having dispatched a squirrel below. After a short time it returned to its meal.

In a grim if comical (to humans) routine, two or three squirrels in the tree kept a nervous eye on the hawk and maneuvered to better positions. The squirrel here had been on a branch below the hawk but moved to the trunk and discreetly climbed to the presumably safer branch above. You wonder if they knew they were fairly safe, given that the hawk already had its meal in place. Fortunately for them, hawks don’t bury squirrels the way squirrels bury acorns.

After sitting in the tree for several minutes, the hawk returned to the squirrel. Possibly wary of the attention we were giving it, it eventually grabbed the eviscerated rodent in its talons and flew to the other end of the square.