Month: September 2015

Grid Gallery

Grid gallery.  From the archives.  Once you start looking, it’s surprising to see how many grids present themselves. Seems I lean to shooting through chain link fencing.

ball field Arlington

City through a chain link fence.  Arlington Ball Field.


Felix de la Concha

Felix de la Concha Cathedral of Learning Paintings University of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall

 

MOMA grid

Man on cell phone with statue at MOMA  NYC

 

warhol museum

Andy Warhol Museum from the AGH Parking Lot

murray ave grid

looking to Murray Avenue from the Suzanne, Linda and Pat’s Art Show

mary apartment grid

From my sister’s apartment window. You can see Freedom Tower under construction.

 

steelers door

Steelers Garage in Arlington neighborhood.

madonna and chainlinkUrban Madonna Bloomfield neighborhood

The Wilds windows

 

Grandchildren at  The Wilds in Ohio
murphyDear Murphy in the snow

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Aunt Georgeann Brought Cupcakes from Regent Square

Four of the grandchildren are visiting for the weekend, along with their parents. Saturday night we had dinner and guests. Aunt Georgeann came to see how they’d grown. She arrived with a big pink box.

Sweet!


She knew there was almond, lemon, red velvet, and a carrot cake with the sliver of candied ginger, plus two chocolate with espresso frosting.  A dozen sweet cakes.We needed a key but came up with a solution.

She’d stopped off in Regent Square at Vanilla Pastry Studio Molly gave me this birthday gift of a  Rooster Harkerware piece just yesterday.

Aunt Georgeann cut them in half so the kids could decide what they wanted to eat. It was fun to try the different flavors. 


  

You can see everyone enjoyed the treat! 

I took one of the leftovers and put it on a cupcake stand Joanne gave me years ago.

Practicing my food photography.

 I wanted to show the big pink box!

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Grid: Weekly Photo Challenge

In response to Michelle W. Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Grid.”

shot with iPhone this evening specifically for the challenge.

Park Brugges

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Dinner Out Coincides with Millvale Days Once Again

It was Thursday night.  Steve and I met our friend V at Grant Avenue Bar in Millvale for a casual dinner and saw the road was blocked off and a banner overhead announced MILLVALE DAYS 2015. We were there!

This exact experience has happened to me and Steve before, three years ago (see post). But there wasn’t any wrestling going on this evening.

After dinner we walked down Grant Avenue, listened to a couple of live bands, checked out the vintage cars and ate a piece of Yetter’s chocolate.  Unexpected fun.  Of course, I’d left my camera at home!

And there’s a to-go container of tapioca in the fridge downstairs. Looking forward to breakfast.

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Broccoli and Red Peppers

from our brother David’s garden- Okanogan WA-

Sent this morning from my sister Mary. I’m wishing I were there with them. 

  

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Olaf and the Unicorn

Maura’s unicorn horn was from the Clintonville Music and Art Festival.

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Puppy, Baby and a Photo Bomb in Black and White

Made these black and white as I thought the colors were distracting to the story.

 

 

photo bomb coming

Jack sees an opportunity

 

photo bomb2Jack

 

 

Going for light in both of their eyes.

 

Anna and Josie Black and White

 

 

 

 

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So Bad but Sooo Good

Working on photos, getting bleary eyed and thinking about finishing up for the night – and Steve brought home Sea Salt and Caramel ice cream from WF. Uh-oh!

 

And then to top it off- he comes upstairs with a sweet foamy combo-

A Dr. Better float

 But hey, no preservatives-

And No caffeine –

(what happened to the I before e, except after c rule?) 
Not quite ready to pull an all-nighter, though. 

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Monochrome: Weekly Photo Challenge

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Monochromatic.” Photos by my DIL. Erikaimage

thanks Erika for your photos from the Ohio State University Game against Hawaii imageand one with the field so you can see the contextimage

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Puppy Love

Josie the Airedale and granddaughter Anna

 On the move.  What big paws you have…  
Light in all four eyes 

  Henry (2) plays with her.  He likes to keep watch on the front yard, too.  
 

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