At the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium on Tuesday. Just the two of us.
Spoiler alert: if you are going and want to guess the weight of these enormous pumpkin specimens don’t look as I have the answers shown in the photos below the pumpkins.
I was trying to envision how these huge pumpkins were transported and installed.
There are signs Do not Touch or Climb
The animals were great but my grandson Ananda loved seeing all the Mighty Machines where construction workers were working in the zoo.
My friend Vincie inspired this post.
She was telling me her experience of seeing tress in the process of changing colors when she was on a recent New England vacation.
Her noticing the process and telling me about the mixed colors on the trees had me noticing and taking a photo.
We all know a photograph has limitations to capture mother nature’s work but the light was nice on this. tall tree as it was starting to turn to red from green.
I’ll have to get a couple of her photos to add to the post as we aren’t in New England here.
Here’s an article Why Leaves Change Color in the Fall
I’ll take another photograph in a few days
Under a scaffolding so it wasn’t getting wet in the rain.
The sign said FREE COUCH
Mary texted me this afternoon as she was on her way to our cousin John’s 90th birthday celebration. .
You know I love it when family or friends send me abandoned furniture. I like to think about all the stories the furniture could tell.
And what a beautiful garden she tends with great love and care.
Marion asked if I’d come up the street and photograph her favorite dahlias.
I was happy to see the many varieties and rich colors, making them easy to capture. The bees were enjoying all the gorgeous blossoms.
On my front porch today.
I was sitting knitting and all of a sudden I saw this fuzzy caterpillar crawling across the pillow on the chair.
Google images says it’s a VirginiaTiger Moth in caterpillar stage
Click here to watch the video while this fuzzy creature looks for a place to live. They call it a Yellow Woolly Bear caterpillar
Good news it’s eats low growing plants not wool clothing! Also
I was glad it was crawling on the pillow and not crawling on me! Turns out the wiry hairs can cause skin irritation.
Ten years ago Scott installed a circuit breaker box for my house so I could get a new furnace and AC unit put in with the proper connections. My house is 100 years old and used to have knob and tube wiring. It’s always something. Another job Scott added some GCFI outlets in the kitchen, an outside motion light aimed at the garage and driveway and today he installed a new kitchen ceiling light as the other one was shooting sparks. Put a new dimmer switch in the dining room too. He does good work! Plus he comes when you call.
If you live in the Pittsburgh area keep his number handy. (412) 298-3423
Happy Birthday to John B. Van Sickle.
Our mother Marian and his father John R. were siblings.
Emeritus Faculty in Classics and Author of Virgil’s Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse
Why the years are in Roman Numerals!
No recipes today.
Do NOT ingest. Hers a list of edible bracket fungus.
Just documenting natures amazing fungus today.
Have you observed any bracket(also called shelf fungus) fungus lately? I never knew about bracket fungus..there are many cool names-
Chicken of the Woods and Beefsteak Fungus are two.
So you ask what’s the difference between turkey tail and false turkey tail. I did not look at the underneath of the fungus so I couldn’t say
