This view gets photographed a lot by residents and tourists.
Where the Allegheny and Monongahela meet to create the Ohio River at the Point.
Month: May 2016
The Brothers Reed Play Pittsburgh
The Brothers Reed drove from Oregon to Pittsburgh with stops along the way.
Tomorrow it’s Atlantic City, New Jersey and Sunday they are playing in New York City. A musical tour. They contact me last November about playing in Pittsburgh and I said let me see if I can find someone to host. You know when no one else said yes, I called them back and said Come on to Pittsburgh. They found me through a blog post about the house concert with Christopher Mark Jones
Oh, are they good.
When they were warming up in my living room,I was sitting in the dining room and the first sweet chords and clear harmonies brought a lump in my throat, I was so moved by their song.
The audience clapped heartily and were enthusiastic for their music.
The Brothers Reed CDs and Hoodies for sale 
blurry through the front porch screen
Aaron’s guitar and pedal tambourine 
Phil’s guitar and harmonicas
My neighbors lent me chairs AND Joaquin set them up. Thanks Joaquin and Suzanne.
The fragrance of basil fills the foyer, thanks to Jill. Love the Italian baking pot!
And thanks to Roberta for the homemade goodies and Joan for her bread. Other friends and neighbors brought some wine. Nice.
Remembering Mary Therese
No matter if decades pass since you’ve seen one another.
You shared something special and exciting a long time ago.
When you remember, they’re younger and laughing and you’re younger and laughing, too. Life was good.
All those years I didn’t mail Christmas cards.
Wish I’d kept in better touch. You hear the sad news.
These tulips are for Mary Therese who passed May 12th.
There’s a celebration of her life at Our Lady of the Pines in Black Forest, Colorado Friday morning, but I’m in Pittsburgh.
I want to tell her beloved husband, Joe, I’m sorry, I remember and I will keep them both in my heart.
Hers is a life to celebrate!
Mary Therese Bonnet
March 10, 1953 – May 12, 2016
Homegrown Chives Garnish Pierogies Supper
While the men loaded up the chairs, Suzanne gave me a tour of her garden and shared some chives. She said you can eat the blossom!
After we pulled away from our friends’ house,(where we’d gone to borrow folding chairs) Steve and I needed something to eat.
We drove down the hill to the Bryant Street Market, and found homemade Pierogies in a ziploc bag in their freezer.
I sautéed plenty of sliced Vidalia onions in butter, too.
Added the snipped fresh chives garnish which complemented the potato and cheese filled pierogies.
Guest Blog-Wordless Wednesday
Thanks for sending this wonderful Wordless Wednesday photograph, Shannon.
Looking in the Archives
Do you ever go back and examine a series of photos you took, at least a decade ago? Maybe your camera was low-end or you didn’t have a perfect lens. The weather was gray.
When I look at New York Spring, I see my sister’s guidance and spotting cool things for me to photograph- help capture signage and scenes in her neighborhood, before they disappear. Signs. Lots of signs.
I try to keep the blog in Real Time but this is looking back and no, I’m not in NYC tonight.
Signage and scenes from NYC
Faces Change in a Blink
How quickly their faces change.
Anna
Michael
Jack
Maura
Charles
The Weekly Photo Challenge is FACE, I have a lot to draw upon from my archives.
Can You Tell By His Face, He’s Teasing Me?
Michael called to me from upstairs.
I started walking up. Oh.
This is what I saw. Yikes!
How did he get his head between the spindles?
(One of the spindles comes out!)
He got me.
Good one, Michael.
How I Look to my Granddaughters
Weekly photo challenge: FACEMaura and Anna drew their grandmother’s face- mine!
Drawn on dry erase board. Maura -7
Drawn on the other half of the board with dry erase marker. By Anna-12
Pine Street Philadelphia Sign
I dedicate this post to my fashionable friends.
Natalie- Personal Shopper and Closet Cleanse Specialist
Bernadette- Outfits Not Just Clothes
Shannon- Carpus Diem
My fashionable friends links to blogs and info in blue after their names.
This sign below is for the three of you! 