So many firsts
When you are three months old.
Today his first autumn leaf. Look!
Oh, there it is
I walked Charlie around the block today and found the ambient light under his stroller canopy.
Series of three
Baby’s first autumn.
He’s not at all worried about the next season and what it will bring.
Everything is new and wonderful.
With raindrops.
Without.
Wet pavement and textured concrete.
Through the museum window
Trying to find attribution to sculpture court artwork is challenging on the CMOA website.
Monday afternoon
We need rain but it’s coming so fast and furious on Tuesday, it’s running off and forming problems on roadways, causing flooding in some areas.
In context. Sculpture Court Carnegie Museum of Art.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Change.”
Sculpture court steps at rear of Carnegie Museum of Art
Little locust leaves litter the steps, wet from the rain
Change is this week’s photography challenge and Friday I posted my children as they are all grown up with families of their own. I’ve looked at quite a few fellow bloggers posts and didn’t see this one yet but I might have missed it. So many possibilities for posts illustrating change.
I was baking some cookies, noticed the mixing bowl of dough, and I thought- change.
I went to the other room and got the real camera instead of the phone.
The light seemed nice in the kitchen.
Oatmeal Crisps from the Farm Journal Cookbook (1972 ed.)
I cut the recipe in half and left out the coconut. You could add nuts and/or raisins.
My minor adjustments to the original recipe below.
1 C butter, room temp ( I happened to have Irish butter on hand)
1 C brown sugar
3/4 C white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 C flour
3 C Bob’s Red Mill Oats
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
dash of cinnamon and dash of ginger
Bake about 11 minutes @ 350
Thanks to Kristin Snow for the challenge this week. You have to check out her blog Snowmads
Excerpt from her blog is below. You will be inspired for adventure after reading it.
We’re Jason and Kristin Snow, a travel-addicted couple who walked away from cubicles and conventional lives two years ago to roam full-time, gaining valuable perspective on life and meeting new friends at every turn. We hope to inspire others to follow their dreams and collect experiences instead of things. Please feel free to share some travel tips right back at us whenever possible — we love hearing from you!”
Step Forward Event/Walk (1.5 Miles) to Fight Parkinson’s Disease.
Highland Park, Pittsburgh PA. Saturday morning September 26, 2015.
When the listing for the Fund Raising event said “Fun for the whole family” you can see they were serious.
Friends and family sign in to walk in teams.
Face Painting by a Pixie- designer Beth Shari
Volunteers take a Ping Pong break
Yes, that is a Pierogie with a Purse and the Mayor in the blue shirt and jeans
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Change.”
One minute you have babies, then toddlers and teenagers, young adults. Before you can catch a breath, they are all grown up and gone and have families of their own
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Sand Hill Berry Farm Cider Press- Bushels of Apples- October Sunday-Mt. Pleasant, PA
Red Currants and Red Raspberries their specialty, not to mention the gooseberries to make jam. Raspberry pies, and free raspberry sundaes. We roasted hot dogs over a fire, and marshmallows to make s’mores.
Autumn color in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania is hard to beat. The barn was filled with the smell of apples.
How beautiful the colors came out!! Always the photographer
Photographed foggy morning September 16th. How fog affects the image’s feel. A painterly effect.
On Lincoln Highway in Stoystown, PA. Stoystown Auto Wreckers. Established in 1948, click on link for their story.
The field of cars is something to see. Piles of crunched up vehicles, stacks and stacks.
The categories are evident. On the link above, I read they have computerized inventory and ten salesmen to help you find the car part you are looking for.
We pulled over and I had to get out of the car. Photographing through the bonus chainlink fence- perfect for the Weekly Photo Challenge of GRID.
A photograph can’t really capture the massive sea of broken cars and trucks.
Guest blog courtesy of my friend Joanne.
Galleries of carousels. Her guest blog exemplifies connection, which was a weekly photo challenge a few weeks ago.
First Carousel was built in Leavenworth KS in 1927. and is now in St. Augustine Florida
This the Fairy Tale Carousel in Geneva Switzerland you can watch it moving on youtube, here is a link Joanne sent to me.
The carousel below is in Beaune, France in the Burgundy region
The carousel gallery is sent from Lausanne Switzerland
Thanks Joanne for sharing your carousel photos.
Original four comments. Zero likes . My friend Dorothy passed in 2010. A Memorial Poetry Reading is being planned for this November 13, 2015.
Ruth, what a wonderful angle to take your picture to include indoors, outdoors and I can almost smell the apples.
Dorothy