The fun and magic of natural playscapes never ceases to amaze (and amuse) me. We have a big Community Build playscape project coming up in May at the JCC in York, PA and last weekend we traveled down for a ground breaking ceremony and day of planning and organizing. Do you know about the mummers and the mummers’ parade? Maybe not but here’s the gist: every year in Philadelphia since 1900 there is a wild parade filled with costumes, music  [read more →]

Winter time here. Grey skies. Ice and snow on the ground. Wood fire keeping things toasty inside. Sledding and skiing as daily fun-time activities. Not bad! Now of course in the southern hemisphere it’s sunny hot summer and I still have a winter’s worth of summery pictures and stories from our New Zealand – Australia trip to share. But in the meantime I wanted to share an interesting playground design that Leon Smith (my playscape brother) and I collaborated on  [read more →]