Holiday Light Show

No, he hasn't been Tasered. He's waiting for this...





Behold, the Holiday Light Show at Macy's -- so effective at subduing small boys it should require FDA approval.

Crush

That's Elliott's special smile for Alix, his Capogiro crush.

Vintage Elliott: Babycino addict

Rrrrrrahhh!

Elliott channels a tiger.

Lego cafe

E and G's Lego model of their favourite coffee place.

Up

Vintage Elliott: Stripes

Onigiri

Japanese bento blog Just Bento has a comprehensive guide to making these easy, healthy and kid-friendly rice balls. We use a $2.99 onigiri press, purchased in Philly's China Town. Happy to send one back to any Tasmanians in need.

2nd & Delancey

Headhouse Farmers' Market

Alas, our favourite Philly farmers' market -- Sundays at the historic Headhouse -- is about to go on hiatus until May. Farmers produce very little between now and then on account of Pennsylania's frigid winter, which announced its return with a weekend snowstorm. But H is not one to let sub-zero temperatures come between her and fancy French turnips. Here we are at an unusually quiet late-season market this past Sunday.

Spatula

Nigella Lawson's chocolate cherry cupcakes -- a hit even before they were baked.

Moon spotting

Out late looking for the moon.

Tasty scarf

Vintage Elliott: Mothers' Market

All the mentions of Mothers' Market -- an event in our former neighbourhood -- on FaceBook are making me a little homesick. Or maybe Bree's brunch and lunch menu (bombolini! insalata lessa! strawberry boy bait!!) is just making me hungry. Last I checked in, she was waiting for her chooks to lay another egg so she could finish making her baked goods. And Tess will be there too with her delicious American-style cookies, the likes of which one seldom finds outside the US. (Got to give our newfound compatriots "props" -- local dialect for compliments -- for their cookies. But also have to ask why they've recently taken to sullying them with bacon. Yes, bacon. In a cookie. Usually with chocolate chips. WTF?) Here's Elliott at the market just before we left Hobart for Philadelphia last year. The market's on this Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5, at St George's Church Hall in Battery Point.

Upside down

Vintage Elliott: Stylish!

Faith

Elliott is but one of many young men for whom fine fair trade coffee is not the only attraction at a particular evil bean dealership. Heeellooooo, Faith!

Serious

Elliott impersonating Harry Potter in misappropriated glasses.

Paleontologist

Elliott plays paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences' hands-on fossil digging exhibit. His dinosaur-loving friend Hannah celebrated her third birthday there this morning.

Happiness = Green tea + Lego

Vintage Elliott: Little

Smoking jacket

A reason to be happy about the suddenly wintry weather: Elliott looks mighty fine bundled up in his smoking jacket.

Vintage Elliott: Hiding

Kenneth

Elliott and Kenneth, quite possibly the only other young man in all Philadelphia who considers 7am the best possible time to be out for coffee. This one's a self-portrait.

Autumn on Quince

Headphones

He is, according to the headphones' 18-year-old owner, listening to Dashboard Confessional.

Zipper