Rittenhouse Town
The last stop from our whirlwind weekend was Rittenhouse Town, which is along the banks of the Wissahickon Creek on the twisty part of the Lincoln Drive. We stopped there on a lark while heading home from the Art Museum, mainly because we wanted to get outside and take a walk while there was still daylight and some reasonably warm air.
All of the buildings were closed up, but still picturesque:
A brief walk creekside led us to the Forbidden Drive, which runs from the edge of the city down to the Schuylkill River at Manayunk. The kids and I have ridden on the Drive in the past; Maria still remembers riding in a child seat on the back of my bike, down the Forbidden Drive to the Reading Terminal Market on a Saturday morning.
Here are Chels, Mary, and the girls on the Forbidden Drive:
At one point we climbed uphill from Forbidden Drive to a stone wall that had been built into the hillside. It actually looked like it was supposed to be a dam, since it was built into the valley between two steeper sections of hill, but it had an arched passageway through the middle. We couldn't make head or tail of it, so we reverted to our usual mode: photo op!
You could walk on top of the wall, which had a curved top and seemed to be part of a hiking trail. Between the curve of the wall top and the absence of rail or guards, it was an unsettling feeling. Naturally, Maria went out there with no trouble at all:
With that we had just about run out of daylight, so we headed home. Just wait until the weather really gets warm and sunny! We'll be taking 500 pictures a day as we ramble through the countryside.
All of the buildings were closed up, but still picturesque:
A brief walk creekside led us to the Forbidden Drive, which runs from the edge of the city down to the Schuylkill River at Manayunk. The kids and I have ridden on the Drive in the past; Maria still remembers riding in a child seat on the back of my bike, down the Forbidden Drive to the Reading Terminal Market on a Saturday morning.
Here are Chels, Mary, and the girls on the Forbidden Drive:
At one point we climbed uphill from Forbidden Drive to a stone wall that had been built into the hillside. It actually looked like it was supposed to be a dam, since it was built into the valley between two steeper sections of hill, but it had an arched passageway through the middle. We couldn't make head or tail of it, so we reverted to our usual mode: photo op!
You could walk on top of the wall, which had a curved top and seemed to be part of a hiking trail. Between the curve of the wall top and the absence of rail or guards, it was an unsettling feeling. Naturally, Maria went out there with no trouble at all:
With that we had just about run out of daylight, so we headed home. Just wait until the weather really gets warm and sunny! We'll be taking 500 pictures a day as we ramble through the countryside.
