Throwback Thursday New York City Rooftops.from 2009

 reblogged in 2017

One of my Earliest Posts – posted July 2009

New York City Rooftops- 2 views by day and by night

How does light affect an image?

Time of day. Time of year. Direction. Intensity. Source. Pollution. Weather conditions.

Thinking about the quality of light.

Taken from E’s mother’s apartment window 4/4/09 in New York City looking North.

nycrooftopsday

 

 

nyc-rooftops-night2

Not a Sing Along- Handel’s Messiah at Heinz Hall

Downtown was chilly but bustling
a single performance of Handel’s Messiah was Sold Out! Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Choir were stellar!
The Heinz Hall tree was impressive
Good friends
About a ten minute standing ovation for the musicians and choir. Bravo!
A closer look at the tree
Holiday cheer prior to the performance .
One of our group couldn’t attend cause she’s in Sydney ❤️l

Soup or Gravy? No!

When you hear or read the word ladle what comes to mind?

I was downtown Pittsburgh with my friend Jen and we saw this huge LADLE! We’d never seen it before.

Yes, ladle.

But not a soup ladle and not a gravy ladle.

Did we stand next to it to give you a sense of proportion? No we did not.

This ladle could pour 105 tons of molten metal!
Going to be installed in the
Heinz History Center

On a Wintry Day

Took this shot from a parking lot.

Silent Sunday

Christmas Tree at the Met

My sister sent me this photo of the Christmas tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Click Christmas Tree link forhttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/christmas-tree-and-neapolitan-baroque-creche details

I baked a Prune Cake

https://youtube.com/shorts/4PVkPXHh-_I?si=dt1lNziF1eVn3X4V

Here’s the Prune cake recipe

I haven’t baked a prune cake in years. I don’t use the 1cup of vegetable oil called for in the recipe but substituted 1stick of unsalted butter and 1/2c applesauce instead. I used 1c of sugar.

And I didn’t add the frosting called for as it’s incredibly sweet, too. I put chopped pecans in one layer and omitted nuts from the second layer.

Buttermilk is key
1 cup of cooked prunes, cooked and mashed
Two eggs
Cinnamon allspice nutmeg

The mashed prunes with the applesauce
Love using the precut parchment paper again

I bought the prunes from nuts.com thanks Kristin for recommending them

November 13,2017 Berlin

Me in my old glasses – a selfie that my SIL James foubd in his phone and sent to me Sunday.

Wordless Wednesday

Holy Family in a Tree

From the archives. Columbus Ohio. In a shop window.