June 2024 – Page 3 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Shades of Green

June 10, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: color, garden, green, photography, plants, postaday, shades 11 Comments

Walnut Street Cushioned Chair

This color image seemed to want to be edited to black and white. I pulled over to the curb to catch it through the car windshield so that’s a bit of a filter already.

June 9, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, chair, garbage, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Shadyside, Waknut Street 11 Comments

Le Petit Prince Sculpture NYC-

rom my sister Mary today-

From my sister Mary today-

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

June 8, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: author, book, family, Jean-Marc de Pas, Le Petit Prince, New York City, sculpture, The little Prince 4 Comments

Near the Checkout

There’s a variety of items on either side of the check out line at TJMaxx store. Strategically placed to tempt the shoppers. Impulse buys!

I was purchasing a couple of household items when I spotted these bags of Candy Bar flavored coffee.

I don’t care for flavored coffee or sweet (probably super sugary)coffee but the bags still caught my eye.

June 7, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: candy bar, check out line, coffee, dessert, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, shopping 9 Comments

Peter, After Lunch in My Garden

June 6, 2024 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, PhotographyTags: animals in the city, bunny, driveway, garden, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, rabbit 10 Comments

“The Johnstown Inclined Plane(click link for history) is billed as the “world’s steepest vehicular inclined plane”. It can carry automobiles and passengers, up or down a slope with a grade of 71.9%. The travel time between stations is 90 seconds.”

June 5, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Incline, inclined plane, Johnstown, photography, postaday, renovations, travel 6 Comments

Chocolate Cloud Cake

Cloud Cake Recipe -a flourless chocolate cake

It calls for five eggs separated. 3 of the eggs had double yolks so it was extra rich

Good chocolate is key to depth of flavor
I even added a few squares of Icelandic Dark with SeaSalt.

I used the vegetable steamer and a Pyrex bowl as a double boiler to melt the chocolate and butter

Once it’s smooth , let it cool a bit before you fold in the egg whites

Parchment paper in the bottom of the ancient springform pan

Here’s a 30 second video (click link to watch )beating egg whites with my 38 year old Kitchen Aid

Folding the beaten whites into the chocolate mixture

The top did not crack this time we added freshly whipped heavy cream with a bit of vanilla. It’s simply delicious

June 4, 2024 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, butter, chocolate, cloud cake, dark chocolate, egg whites, eggs, food, gluten free, kitchen, photography, postaday 13 Comments

Spider-Man in Johnstown PA

Comic book artist Steve Ditko is from Johnstown PA born in 1927.

He and Stan Lee co-created Spider-Man

Steve crosses the street to get a closer look at the mural

June 3, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: artist, comic book, Johnstown PA, photography, postaday, public mural, Spider-Man, Steve Ditko, super hero, travel 3 Comments

The Polka Fest in Johnstown PA

It’s the first weekend in June, every year. We drove over Sunday afternoon, about a 90 minute trek from the city. We heard it was packed on Friday and Saturday but we were happy with a modest crowd.

The music energizing and festive. The dancers enjoying themselves as they zipped around the floor in the pavilion. A little rain didn’t dampen the spirit.