THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH a guy can do to document the snowiest Philadelphia winter in any living person's lifetime. I've taken hundreds of photos so far to document the depth and breadth of our record-breaking snowfalls of February 2010 (with more due tomorrow) and I can only show one at a time. So here's the one I've chosen for today.
That's Casper the Friendly Snowman sitting smack dab in the middle of the Swann Fountain at Logan Circle in Center City. Casper's eyes seem to have been concocted out of someone's woolen gloves (voluntarily surrendered, perhaps?).
Casper joins the three other permanent Philadelphia presences in the fountain -- the Delaware, the Schuylkill and the Wissahickon, which is what the the three human Indian figures (sculpted by Alexander Sterling Calder, son the City Hall master sculptor -- including the 37-foot-tall bronze of William Penn -- Alexander Milne Calder) symbolically represent.
How permanent Casper remains depends on how cruel the Winter of 'Ten continues.
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