Natural PlaySpace, Initial Installation

Natural PlaySpace: Research

 Basic 'research' on desired play structures:  creative visioning.

Field 'research'

Little Faces

Day Trip to New York

One feels that you are stepping into other peoples' lives.
Waiting for the train below.

A family outing to Lincoln Center park.

 Walking through a graduation celebration of Touro College, above.

Life and art, below.

Arborist at Work

Awbury Arboretum subcontractors at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting

The tree comes down above.
Lifting it out with the crane, to right.

Field Trip to Antietam Lake County Park

East of Reading, Berks County, PA is the newest county Park:  Antietam Lake

 Sassafrass Bark

 Seeking plants, late spring.










Skunk Cabbage at spring seep.

Trout Lily

Volunteer Work Day: Philadelphia DPR and WEP

Saturday April 26:  Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation and Wissahickon East Project.  Leader David Bower.  At a new park site along Cresheim Valley, Mount Airy.

Team celebrates dragging an abandoned water heater up from Cresheim Valley stream for trash and recycling.

Clearing logjams out of the stream.

Circle gathers at the end of the day

Volunteer Work Day: Philadelphia DPR and CHFM

April 12 Joint Workday Philadelphia Dept of Parks and Recreation 
Volunteers from Accenture, Timberland and Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting
Leader David Bower

 Orientation by David Bower to tools and techniques










Setting out

        A successful day:
180 cubic feet of trash and recycling


Josh

Rock Creek Park Woods in March 2014

Notice the softening of the light taking place over just a few days at the end of March.  The color tone shifts from black and grey to warmer blue, yellow and brown.

CHFM Volunteer Days

Spring begins volunteer cleanup days in the woods around Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.

 David Bower, Volunteer Coordinator for Philadelphia Parks & Rec, gives a thank you to volunteer team from Holderness School in Plymouth, NH.

 Damaged and fallen pine boughs are collected and then carried away for chipping and shredding.






Ginger the dog is an important part of the work team!