This photo from March 2010 is a reminder to return to the same location and take some new night shots of the incline in the Spring.
Month: March 2015
Eight is Great!
March 21st is grandson John Patrick’s 8th birthday.
Where does the time go? Happy Birthday Jack!
love,
FF Ruthie
Jack and Henry
Jack at swim meet last summer 2014
Jack at the Carnegie Museum of Art Sculpture Garden last summer 2014
Sneaking a cookie from cousin Vicci’s wedding cookie table. (Aunt Linda’s curtain veils weren’t enough)
Jack at the Zoo with Kangaroo
Another Birthday Thomas the Engine
One Year
Jack is new
Jack with his family
A Pittsburgh Wall We Know and Love (and a Couple of our Regular Retaining Walls)
A very special wall– Forbes Field.
The remains.
Forbes Field is long gone (1972)
-but the wall where the1960 World Series was won by Bill Mazeroski’s homerun stands.
It’s called the Greatest Homerun Ever. You can watch it at YouTube here
And the retaining walls of Pittsburgh are featured prominently in Rick Sebak‘s excellent video 25 Things I Like About Pittsburgh available for viewing on Youtube for a short time.
You can’t believe how many retaining walls there are in every neighborhood of the city.
Duquesne U on Top
Unexpected Cooking Class Wednesday Night
I received a text this afternoon, asking if I’d partner with a friend at cooking class tonight.
Something about March Madness and a sick friend – they couldn’t attend. I was happy to fill in, third string.
Sure, I said. I’ll go. She picked me up around 5:45 and off we went.
My friend Barb took her own canvas bag of supplies including a bottle of dishwashing liquid- heavy duty oven gloves. She even brought a garbage bowl.
We were all set, slicing and dicing and preparing the recipes just as Executive Sous Chef Stephen V instructed us.
There were tables throughout the high school culinary class, each filled with two teams of two.
Here is our instructor for the class. Chef Stephen also is an adjunct instructor at the Art Institute- Pittsburgh.
Chef Stephen Varela
Executive Sous Chef
Fox Chapel Golf Club
(I asked if it would be okay to take a few photographs and Chef Stephen consented. Thank you)
Barbara cut the pears for the salad. She added some Hearts of Palm as well.
Charred red pepper for the Pita Bread Individual Pizzas with Pesto or Hummus and a drizzle of Balsamic Glaze
The side salad
Mixed Spring Greens with diced pear, artichokes, and oven toasted croutons with a poppy seed dressing. I was able to bring some home in a contaner (yes, my friend was prepared with empty containers) for school lunch tomrrow.
Thanks for a fun evening Barb -on the right. Me in the Zagreb,Croatia apron.
And on the way out we peeked in next door to see the Crochet Class. At first I thought it was knitting. Everyone was so nice.
Weeekly Photo Challenge: Wall
Wall. (s)
Lego Store New York City
Coney Island
Coney Island
Subway NYC
NYC Subway
New York City-Coney Island.
Eataly
SPring Wall
NYC
Bloomfield
Button Store Carson Street
Airbrush Artist at Work
For the people at work series.
This is Beth of M and B Designs. On their site it says you can get a design made, ready for pickup in 120 minutes.
She was customizing t-shirt designs for the young dancers in a dance competition at our high school, using the airbrush and it was fascinating to watch her work. She does all sorts of gymnastics, sports and name designs.
I misplaced her card.
Sorry Beth. Thanks for being part of my “people at work” series.
Yinz Irish?
“Yinz Irish?”
from Wikipedia (Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians.[1)
1. Rehder, John B. (2004). Appalachian folkways. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-7879-4. OCLC 52886851.
No shortage of green t-shirts for sale.
St Patrick’s Day Socks
Green Hair
A few more photos in case the people look for themselves on the blog in Sunday’s post
and a link to the FB Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade Page
A family with stroller headed to watch the parade
A young horsewoman from the Victory Stables
A gnome gone Irish at COLLAGE gift shop, dressed for the occasion
Castle Shannon- Green Monster
Not sure if the parasol helped keep her dry!
Pittsburgh Allderdice Marching Band
Phil who promotes Pittsburgh’s Strip District, jumped in to get in photo two
(See photo one below!
My favorite shot of the day)
Rain on the St. Patrick’s Parade Doesn’t Dampen Pittsburgh Irish Day Celebration
Saturday moring around nine, I was driving through the Strip District and saw green in every direction.
Ahhh, St.Patrick’s Day Parade!
How could I have forgotten. Parked the car and got out in the rain and realized all I had was my cell phone camera.
Everyone was so nice when I asked if I could photograph them. The rain didn’t dampen their spirits.
Irish Step Dancers
300 members but with the rain not sure how many would show
Twenty-seventh parade !
Ladies of the AOH Auxilary Sue and Marian
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The Shriners
Hanging up green merchandise. Love the shades.
Check out Neighbors in the Strip page
The Parade Marshall. He thought I was lost. So nice.
Markie
Green everything for sale
Decked out for the rain
Orlando selling green tees
This group has placed first in their category!
New Dimension Comics and Steel City Ghostbusters
Pitsburgh Allderdice High School Marching Band
Mike Feinberg Party Supplies Window
Miniature Schnauzer Winston with a green bandana
3.14.15 9:26:53 Celebrating Special Pi Day at School
A very special Pi Day. Once in a century. Tomorrow, 3.14.15 is it. Get ready!
Celebrated at school today. Spearheaded by Mrs. Mihalic. Creating some spirit!
There were numbers posted all around the hallways on the 800 level to who-knows-what place…..some cool art which I didn’t get to photograph yet.
And my neighbor across the hall…. I went in this morning and said “Hey, where’s your Pi shirt?” and then she turned around and showed me!
The librarian, wearing the machine stitched embroidery shirt her Mother, J.E., created espcially for her.
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Mrs. Mihalic, math teacher, created a wildly spirited event, complete with Pi Day cookies she special ordered from Eat’n Park
In the cafeteria there was a game where students could win a slice of pie. (Similar to a Cake Walk)
Posting this one so you can see how you had to land on a certain number when the music stopped to win a slice of pie.
Photographed by Steve after school Friday the 13th. I’m wearing one of the shirts Mrs. Mihalic created.
A different shirt worn by one of my photography students.Everyone was getting in on the festivities.
Pittsburgh Skyline, Incline and Sea of Fog
Made the decision to turn right at the mouth of the Liberty Tunnel, go to Mount Washington and photograph the city in fog on the way to school this morning.
I thought the above shot was best with the gift of light on the incline car, as it prepared to head down the mountain. No tripod although there was a man with one. I stabilized my camera on the iron fence.
Of course, the light changes every moment as the sunrises in the east. All shots taken with 24-70 lens on the Canon 5D Mark ii
One vertical shot. Light and dark/ Cloud and shadow.
Trying to get the best view in the frame.
Being there. looking at the city in the fog, was a magnificent experience. The limits of photography.
It felt like being in a plane but you’re standing on a concrete platform by the incline, looking at the city disappear in a foggy sea. Wasn’t it just last week I was photographing the icy river and the barge lane? Today felt like early Spring.
Three young men agreed to let me capture their silhouettes. Thanks guys. I’ll email them the blog post link today.