Spiderman and a tribute to a Marine on the same telephone pole in Oakdale PA.
The town has decorated for Halloween and Veterans Day.
Spiderman and Tribute to a Marine on the Same Telephone Pole
Month: October 2019
Liver and Onions Yes or No?
When I go out to eat I like to order something I don’t prepare at home. But I won’t be ordering the Liver & Onions.
It’s a NO for me but when my sister comes to visit and we are across the river at the Grant Bar it’s what she orders. This photo is the Oakdale Diner in Oakdale PA. Their fancy electronic sign keeps changing. I waited until the Liver & Onions in lights flashed back on.
I’ve asked you about flavors and tastes before, food preferences. So which is it? Liver and Onions Yes or No?
Celebrating a Special Birthday
Happy 16th Birthday Dear Anna,
I remember that early October morning, looking out the hospital window and watching the sun come up. The day you were born. I went to school and was so excited your arrival had made me a grandmother. Everyone was happy for me at school.
Good luck on your driving test. You will do great I know.
2003 seems just a moment ago and now you’re becoming so grown up. Proud of you and all you accomplish. I wish you every happiness, always.
Love, FF Ruthie
Wordless Wednesday
Anna said, “they taste like vitamins”
Descent-the action of moving downward, dropping or falling
Note: I miss the weekly WordPress Photo Challenges. Here’s one from October 2014.
From the archives
MONTH: OCTOBER 2014
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: DESCENT
Lots of images came to mind.
The trick was digging around in the files and finding what I was envisioning for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent created by Cheri Lucas Rowlands at WordPress. Her example was excellent.
Here is my gallery of descent.
Jet Blue making descent to Baltimore July 2014
How I love being the passenger with a camera in hand. My DIL was driving.
Low clouds and a truck making descent in WV enroute to Hardy VA
Down the slide at Idlewild Park -Michael, Erika and Maura
Grandson Jack coming down the Giant Slide at Idlewild Park
Mark climbing the deer stand in Centerline OHio
10-7-19 edit Looks like Ascent or ascending on the above photo Who knows what I was thinking or maybe he was climbing down?
Some random Skycoaster riders at Kennywood. Lots of screams
Anna diving into the pool at a swim meet. Descending into the water.
from a previous post – City Sidewalk -paper street steps- 2010 Garfield when I taught at Fort Pitt School
His Mom’s Popple From the Eighties
This is his Mom’s Popple from the eighties. They were the desired toy of 1987 when Laura was four. Of course, I’d saved it.
Charlie (4) Is enjoying playing with it. Getting some play time a second time around.
The arms and legs tuck up into a front pocket and it looks like a big fuzzycolorful ball. There’s a tail with a furry pompon at the end.
I asked Laura what she called it. “Popple” was her response
I found a commercial for this toy. Not sure how long they were the craze.
Charlie’s having fun throwing it around.
Signs of Fall
Charlie had fun in the pumpkin house at the Franklin Park Conservatory
Looks like Van Gogh
“Quick Anna. Get my phone. Take pictures for me” we rolled down her window.
I’d picked her up at cross country practice about four. On the way home the Ohio landscape was reminiscent of Van Gogh’s Wheat Fields and Cypresses to me but I was driving. Anna kept shooting. Thanks Anna for capturing the scene.
I loved the addition of the bright school crossing sign
Happy Birthday Dear DIL
Happy Birthday dear DIL Erika. I’m glad I get to spend it with you this year.
You are a wonderful mother to four of my grandchildren.You remind me I’ve much for which to be grateful.
I love this photo of you.
Here you are in the apple orchard (2008) with Anna and Michael, Jack was home napping and you were carrying Maura, due to arrive the next month.
Anna is one
Michael resting on you
Here you are with Jack and your mother
Making Christmas happen when Maura was one month
August 2002
Taken by Anna
On Church Steps
Happy happy Birthday. ❤️Your MIL
Almost Six Years Ago
Reblogged from Nov 3, 2013
Keeping Tabs A Holocaust Sculpture Dedication
Sunday afternoon was the official dedication of the Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs- A Holocaust Sculpture at the Community Day School at the corner of Beechwood Boulevard and Forward Ave. The sculpture is a maze in the shape of the Star of David, created with glass blocks which are filled with six million pop tabs which took almost five years to collect , each tab representing a human life lost in the Holocaust. Many people contributed time, money and effort to the creation of the sculpture and the beautiful surrounding park. Walking into the maze, one is struck by the magnitude of the horror of genocide, the number of victims is hard to fathom but the pop tabs in the glass blocks are a reminder of the millions killed.
The resident artist, Elena Hiatt Houlihan has been with this project since 2002. Pop tabs were being collected since 1996 and Mr. Walter the History Teacher at Community Day School had aquariums filled with them when Elena arrived to help the student teams design the sculpture. Their original artist statement was read by her at the dedication ceremony today.
Elena had been a resident artist at Greenfield Elementary when I was the art teacher there and I remember her talking about the ongoing work of this sculpture and then funding and other circumstances delayed the completion.
It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon and there were speeches and prayers and an 8th grader played the violin. A chill wind and shadows gave one a shudder and reminded those present of the significance of the memorial sculpture. Never Forget.
I went up earlier in the day to photograph the memorial sculpture before all the people arrived.
Receiving a standing ovation, Mr. Walter comes to the podium to speak
Artist in Residence Elena Hiatt Houlihan and Social Studies Teacher Mr. Bill Walter who started the collection of the pop tabs when he was teaching the Holocaust to middle school students at Community Day School.
Article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the Keeping Tabs Memorial Sculpture Dedication, this time including Elena Hiatt Houlihan’s name
This block will be used for educational presentations. I put a tab in and then asked the next woman if I might photograph her doing so and she agreed.