Philadelphia ginkgos. I stalk them when the leaves turn. They went extinct in the Americas years ago but I’m glad they’re back.

11-13-2025: A Watchful Eye. Photographed May 31, 2015 in Germantown, Philadelphia.

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ENCOUNTER OF THE DAY: "Achoo!pocalypse Now"
An Unhygienic Undead Uprising Location: The gloomy, fog-laced graveyard of Grumblethorpe-on-Wheeze, known for its questionable soil and unusually mobile tombstones.
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Here's a video of Chairman Meow, Bud Bud The Love Spud, The Snoop, Snoop Buddy Bro, Mr. Grumblethorpe, Grumblethorpe J. McGillicuddy, who has reached the dignified age of 18, drinking out of his fancy fountain with ice cubes, as is his preference. He deserves it. #catsofbluesky

And as a parting note for today, my favorite grace note: the monstrous hand emerging extradimensionally through the seat of Lovecraft's chair — beware, beware. These teenagers really understood Lovecraft, Shelley, and the general sense of the lineage leading up to and away from them.

As an author who keeps writing about the abiding messed-up love between the flailing living and the meddlesome dead (which is one way of naming history), I loved the evocation of these troublesome forebears, and their appearance at an event dedicated to other art forms entirely than their own.

The mix of live plants, live-ish cut flowers, and conspicuously dead and dried plants is so perfectly #Frankenstein. Our future does seem likely to involve weird hybrids of the living and the dead, with a possible side order of artificially created thinking beings, so okay, Mary Shelley.

The delightfully-named Grumblethorpe Youth Volunteers came up with this design. From forty paces, at first sight of those purple tentacles, I knew #Lovecraft was involved somehow.

Side Chair https://www.artic.edu/artworks/58979/

It’s Wednesday which means it’s time for some spookies! Grumblethorpe in Philadelphia, Pa #ghosts #hauntedhouse #spooky #pennsylvania www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LwpNrK/

if you get a cat (and you should) you should name it Grumblethorpe

He gets called Grumblethorpe and Angry Beaver Boy when he does that