9TH STREET ITALIAN FESTIVAL

I spent an enjoyable afternoon at Phila's 9th Street Italian Festival, roughly half a mile of food, music, and vendors selling the usual mix of jewelry, art, and various tchotchkies.

There were a number of musical stages and acts, some groups

and some solo acts

Others were DJ operations, and the music and sunshine combined to get people dancing, to everything from 'Wobble Baby'

to the Mummers' Strut

Down at the South end of the Festival, Geno's had something of a line

PAT'S not so much

I'm not sure if this means Geno's is more popular, or that Pat's just has quicker service.  But there was much to tempt.  Yum!

CYNTHIA'S TREE

Ah, my wife the gardener.

I have been able to find no better way to honor her memory than to plant things, in this case a dogwood tree in the memorial area of our township's park.  It's still young and small, but had bloomed by her birthday this week.