Ruth – Ruth E. Hendricks

Big Boy Locomotive #4014 in Glenfield PA

Friends Debbie and Sy invited us to come see the giant steam locomotive with their visiting family and then see fireworks later in the evening. We had a great time. We were at a fenced in playground so the kids were safe. And they brought chairs! Nice planning. We went across the Ohio River to their house for dinner and then headed to Avalon for fireworks! What a day.

Click to Watch a minute + video of Big Boy #4014

You hear it before you see it.

Spectators captured by Deb. I was at the wheel

Deb and Sy went to Euclid Ohio June 8th last week and saw the giant Big Boy engine stopped, with a crowd and here are a few of the pics they sent me

Fireworks venue in Avalon
we were in bleacher seats

On the way home I pulled over for “Night Couch” bonus

July 11, 2026July 12, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Photography, trainsTags: Big Boy #4014, Glenfield, locomotive, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, steam engine, Union Pacific 11 Comments

Bees at Work

Bees are attracted to the Coneflowers (Echinacea) in my garden click for info how to grow these deer resistant perennials.

July 10, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Garden, PhotographyTags: bees, coneflower, echinacea, garden, photography, pollinators, postaday, summer 3 Comments

Still celebrating

A guilty pleasure which many don’t understand. Pouring milk on cake. Usually I’d do it on a stale piece but this little piece was still fresh.

Here’s a 14 second video of milk being poured over a piece of Trader Joe’s Lemon Sheet Cake atop a nest of juicy blackberries.

July 9, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday cake, blackberries, food, kitchen, milk, photography, postaday 4 Comments

Old Fashioned Pulley Clothesline from July 2011

A Throwback Thursday post

My friend Joan passed in 2023 but this is her old fashioned pulley clothesline (with a bag to hold the pins). The original post telling of the birthday dinner she made for me – Her clothesline jumped out at me and I thought of sheets hung on the line and how quickly things dry in the summer. The refreshing scent of the sunshine.

The same type of lilies in the 2011 post, the ones I photographed blooming in her garden, are opening up fully in my dining room this week in my birthday flowers bouquet

Remembering two artists, both now deceased

**Photographed in 2015**
**Chiz Gallery Shadyside**

July 8, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: archives, birthday dinner, clothesline, clothespins, friendship, garden, nostalgia, photography, postaday, pulley 2 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

July 7, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wordless WednesdayTags: 1966, Emden Illinois, Farmers State Bank of Emden, penny, photography, postaday, wordless wednesday 4 Comments

Birthday Flowers

July 6, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, bouquet, flowers, lily, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 12 Comments

Filling the Sugar Bowl

Do you keep a sugar bowl?

A friend was coming for coffee today and she enjoys a bit of sweetness in her coffee.I was filling my old Fostoria sugar bowl from my maternal grandmother as it doesn’t have a lid .

I drink my coffee black these days and although I love coffee ice cream I don’t add sugar to my hot coffee.