Autumn in Philadelphia

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Autumn in Philadelphia

Autumn in Philadelphia

Fall foliage is a colorful mix at the Morris Arboretum near Philadelphia.

At the Hagley Museum near Philadelphia, the site of E.I. du Pont's gunpowder manufacturing, this structure conveyed water power to the grinding wheels in each powder house. Since this was pre-electric water turbine, all power had to transferred mechanically, with crank-shaft, cogs, and wheels.

Fall is reflected in the Brandywine Creek at the Hagley Museum, the site of E.I duPont's gunpowder mill, near Philadelphia.

The Tulip Treehouse at the Enchanted Woods children's garden at Winterthur, near Philadelphia, is made of the trunk of a 100-year-old tulip tree.

Buildings in the powder yard at the Hagley Museum, the site of E.I duPont's gunpowder mill, near Philadelphia, were built with three thick stone walls, one weak wall and a roof of thatch, so if the powder blew up, the force of the blast would take out the weak wall but spare the building.

Steel silhouettes of Cotswold sheep by Charles Layland look real enough to fool most visitors to the Morris Arboretum Magnolia Slope.

Looking through a water pipe at the powder yard at the Hagley Museum, the site of E.I duPont's gunpowder mill, near Philadelphia.

The G-scale model train track at the Morris Arboretum is a quarter mile long and attracts train buffs, young and old.

The ingredients of black gunpowder were mixed under cast iron wheels, like a giant mixmaster powered by a water turbine at the Hagley Museum, the site of E.I duPont's gunpowder mill, near Philadelphia.

Jess Cummings, Mike Cummings, Steve Curtis and Angie Cuturick show you're never too old for a maypole dance at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia.

Geese at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia take stock of artist Linda Cunningham's "Germination Sequence."

Owen Norris relaxes on George Sugarman's painted aluminum contemporary sculpture at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia.

Nick Beck and Kate Crosby make a pilgrimage to the dawn redwood grove at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia.

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Fall foliage is a colorful mix at the Morris Arboretum near Philadelphia.

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