Love Your Park Day at Barkan Park, 50th & Spruce, took place on Saturday, Nov. 17, with 25 volunteers, including five AKA sorority sisters (above) from Penn and Drexel who heard about the event through West Philly Local. Neighborhood volunteers planted two new dogwood trees and nearly 550 spring bulbs, as well as raked leaves and cleaned up debris from Hurricane Sandy to prepare the park for the winter ahead.

Many thanks to Mark Mendenhall/Garden Court Community Association for submitting this information.

 
Someone on the 400 block of S. 45th Street is taking a novel and seasonal approach to get out the vote. If you’ve got a jack-o’-lantern you’re proud of, take a picture of it and get it entered in our Pumpkin Carving Contest. It’s free to enter and we have great prizes from local businesses. Look here for more details.

Steve Minicola submitted this photo of a storm passing over St. Francis DeSales domes.

Somebody near 43rd and Spruce is ready for Fall.

Dylan Moore, a neighbor and an amateur photographer, has dozens of great photos from last week’s Dollar Stroll. Here are a few of them. To see more photos, please visit Dylan’s Flickr page.

Update (7/30): And the winner is… Rebecca! This pigeon scarer is at the southwest corner of 42nd and Baltimore.

OK. Here we go again. Do you know where this photo was taken? It’s somewhere between 40th and 50th, Market to Woodland. We will gradually zoom out until someone gets it. Register your guess in the comments below.