City Hall in Philly has a carousel you can see in the center of the courtyard

Philadelphia today - still beautiful late in autumn in Rittenhouse square. The last image is of the Comcast center - its architect Robert AM Stern died earlier this week

I 😻Philly!

There is beauty everywhere but especially in autumn in Philadelphia! 😻

Philly from Camden including then Franklin Bridge, PATCO, and Rutgers Camden! 😻

Now do Sean Duffy.

You can tell who got their PhD in Developmental Psychology.

Analyzing data at my lab’s annex research field station.

Today we celebrated my grandmother’s 98th trip around the sun! My sister of course can’t resist photobombing in every photograph! 😹

Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.

I took a few pictures of the newest train station in Philadelphia!

Philly today from the Camden waterfront!

Some window cats of south Philadelphia

The FLoP isn’t messing around!

Montmartre spotted in Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation! chrisinparis.bsky.social

Pets of the Barnes Foundation Museum in Philadelphia

You’re at Reading Terminal Market and can only get one…which are you having?

Philly, Love Park this week

Discovered there is a cat park in Philly! How did I not know this existed? 😹😹😹

Walking through the Barnes Foundation museum in Philadelphia with its massive collection of art is a wonder to experience especially when everyone else is watching the Eagles game!

Cycled the new Schuylkill Banks trail in Philly - it is extraordinary! Tomorrow I’ll be doing Yardley to New Hope! Let me know if you ever want to join me for a ride!

Artist Isaiah Zagar before one of his South Street murals.

Smedley street Philadelphia

Went for a nice bike ride from Yardley to New Hope. Very nice late summer vibes and so easy to get to on the west Trenton line…

RNA >> RFK

Pretty cool to have been on both sides of the portal in Dublin and Philadelphia!

Some Irish cats

Scenes in Dublin from the first and last lines of Finnegan’s Wake

Dublin, Ireland

Spotted this one off the wharf at Howth, Ireland! He gets my seal of approval!

Dogs of the Irish National Gallery. Clearly the Irish love their dogs!

Cats of the Irish National Gallery

Before going to deep into Dublin I must address Belfast, once the site of extreme terrorist acts by the Irish Republican Army resisting British rule there. There are many remnants of the conflict including these walls that bombs were lobbed over. While the Good Friday agreement

Hello to the people of Philadelphia from Dublin Ireland!

Some window cats of Belfast, Northern Ireland

Scene: Hotel dining room in Belfast. Server: “What would you like for breakfast?” Me: “Whatever. I’ll have the house special!” Returns: (This literally happened and honestly beans on toast is pretty good! 😹)

Discovering what my family is known for in Ireland

Street art of Belfast, Northern Ireland

In Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The most academic-oriented graffiti I’ve ever observed (Shoreditch, London).

I made a second London cat pilgrimage, walking 20,000 steps to see the statue of Bob the street cat, a stray made famous in a international best-selling memoir by James Bowden on how his saving this cat helped him on his recovery from addiction. A bronze statue of him now stands at Islington Green.

My most popular opinion: Museums should ban taking selfies and anyone caught doing so will be asked to leave. It took forever to get this shot of the Rosetta Stone because folks were taking selfies. In front of a rock. An important rock but still just a rock.

Made a pilgrimage in London to see the statue of Samuel Johnson’s cat. Story goes at the end of his life someone commissioned a portrait of him and he asked instead to have a statue of his cat. “I will be remembered through my work but no one will remember Hodge!” Well today we remember Hodge.

Some pets in paintings at the British National Gallery in London.

Not many can say they’ve been to the exact location where a famous painting was created over a hundred years ago. But I was there last week! Seurat Bathers at Asnières, left, Asnièrs last Sunday.

So with that my time in Paris has come to a close. It was an extraordinary summer filled with amazing experiences, and I am fortunate to have friends who made this possible (especially C. and J.). It changed my life forever, and I will always pay this gift forward. Here I am with a few friends.

For those doubters who were like there is no way you swam in the Seine…

I’m pretty sure Mark Twain and I would have been good friends.

Imagine if Philadelphia could make this happen (I know we have bigger problems with septa today but remember precovid we dreamed of a viaduct project?)