What I Found on the Way Home from School – Page 2

Fresh Baked Pies on Handmade Ceramic Pie Stands at the Farmer’s Market

(I am posting this with our dear friend Rob in mind . You might remember he guest blogged for National Pie Day when he was a pie judge)

Okay, I posted the donut for National Donut Day and then yesterday’s baked goods upgrade of the elegant French macarons.

Today it is the fresh baked pies. Fresh Baked Pies from Annie Oakley’s Kitchen that is!

Meet Annie the owner of Annie Oakley’s Kitchen and her sister-in-law Christa, who is a pie apprentice. They were sporting company shirts and aprons and selling delicious looking pies at the South Side Farmer’s Market on Carson Street.

I loved that they had a box of forks so you could dig right in after purchase.

Annie and Christa — Annie the pie maker on the left and Christa (sister-in-law) the pie apprentice on the right.

And Mom, Bryna, is the ceramicist who created the pie/cake stands for the display. She also makes ceramic pie plates for sale.

What a fun booth they had set up in the Farmer’s Market on Carson Street. They are at the Whitehall Farmer’s Market on Mondays.

I sampled the apple butter which she sells on ETSY for just $4 a jar.

I bought two small strawberry rhubarb pies for $5 which was a sweet deal.

June 5, 2012 by Ruth Categories: Baking, Cooking and Eating, Pittsburgh Photos, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: Annie Oakley's Kitchen, apple butter, apple crumb pie, apple pie, baked goods, blueberry pie, cake stand, Carson Street, Ceramics, dessert, Etsy, Farmer's Market, food, photography, pie, pie stand, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, south side, strawberry rhubarb pie, travel 11 Comments

Yikes- You’ve Got to Pull Over, Get Out of Your Car and Shoot It!

In the distance you can see the Cathedral of Learning at Pitt.

The sparkly Christmas Tree caught my eye . St Patricks’s preparation?

And as I returned to my car, I saw the sidewalk/stairs in the shade.

March 14, 2012March 16, 2012 by Ruth Categories: Photography, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: architecture, arlington, Christmas Tree, city scene, humor, neighborhood, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, school, sidewalk, slopes, south side, travel, urban scene 20 Comments

City Alley in Afternoon Light

Bloomfield Neighborhood on a January Afternoon

January 18, 2012January 17, 2012 by Ruth Categories: Light in the City, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: alley, Bloomfield, city, city living, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh 14 Comments

Monongahela River Like a Mirror

I drive across bridges at least twice a day. I go to work on the arch green bridge(Birmingham Bridge) and sometimes come home on the yellow bridge(South 10th Street) but this day I crossed the Liberty Bridge.

Pittsburgh: The city of bridges. The change in light, water movement or in this case stillness, is ever changing.

The South Tenth Street is the one that was lit up for the filming of the Tom Cruise movie.

December 21, 2011December 20, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Pittsburgh Photos, Pittsburgh Rivers, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: bridge, Monongahela River, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday2011, reflection 12 Comments

So, where is he…?

December 19, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Signage, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: dog, garbage, humor, neighborhood, Pittsburgh PA, postaday2011, signage 17 Comments

What I Found Across from School

If you have followed me in the winter you might have seen the pink toilet in the snow. I saw that one on the way to school. This one not quite as dramatic and a different season but the view is directly from the school parking lot and the art room. You know how people’s garbage fascinates me!

September 15, 2011September 15, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Photography, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: alley, arlington, garbage, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday2011, school, toilet 16 Comments

The Old Gray Mare (or Stallion?)

Snow flurries and found my lost scarf

at the third school I was in today.

Left through the wrong door

for where the car was parked.

Turned out to be a good thing.

Here’s what I saw.

I wish the snow falling were visible.

March 31, 2011May 24, 2011 by Ruth Categories: What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: horse, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, school, stallion, the old gray mare 6 Comments

A Broken Bluer Brick Brings Bricks to Mind

Brick by Brick

When I was in younger
you could make a bookcase
with some boards and bricks.
Once at the Hallmark store I won
a football helmet and a foam rubber brick
to throw at the tv if you didn’t like the ref’s call.
I live in a brick house.
I don’t like it when people paint brick.
Just thinking about bricks.

Just thinking about bricks. We all love the yellow brick road and the smart pig brother built his house of bricks When I went out to my car Friday after school there was a broken brick in the road by the curb on Arlington Ave. Not sure where it came from but had a fresh piece out of it. Couldn’t read all the words on this particular brick but brickmaking and brick molds and their imprints are interesting to me. There are people who collect bricks. I couldn’t have set this brick up better than the lines surrounding it. Just waiting there ’til I got out of school and photographed it. There are photographs of bricks from different regions online so people can identify their origin. Lot of brick homes and still some brick streets in Pittsburgh but couldn’t find a list of old Brick Works in the area. Will keep looking. There is a house down the street that has eleven colors of brick in it! I found a listing for a brick manufacturer in Harmar Don’t know anyone who is into serious brick collecting. Anyone into bricks? Quotes about bricks? He was a brick short of a load. Augustus Caesar said “I found Rome brick and left it marble.”

Walkways and walls are good fund raisers as people are willing to donate for a brick with their name or a loved one on it as a memorial.

March 13, 2011May 24, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Pittsburgh Photos, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: architecture, arlington, brick, brick manufacturing, brickmaking, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, structural materials 5 Comments

Steelers Inflatable in a Silver Pick-Up

Arlington Avenue. Driving down the curvy slope, slick tracks under your tires make a distinctive sound. Note the trolley tracks and wires. They still run! I had to turn around and get this inflatable. From the rear. Drove up the hill again and came down, took a shot of him from the front. It was the unexpected sight of a huge Black and Gold inflatable, leaning over the cab of the silver pick-up. This view was the better one. Playoff fever mounts as Sunday night’s game with the Jets is on everyone’s minds. Well, most everyone. It helps us make it through the winter. And if you want to purchase one of these blow up football friends, get down to Mike Feinberg Company”The Party King” in the Strip on Penn Ave. Fans have a variety of ways to express team spirit and I know everyone will sport Black and Gold at school on Friday. Throughout the city! I find team allegiance an interesting study. Where you are born, where you live, family traditions, civic pride. There are photographers who photograph the Steelers Fans for years.

What determines the level of team pride? — My headlights reflect on the truck, the headlights from the oncoming car on the wet street...

January 20, 2011January 19, 2011 by Ruth Categories: photo of the day, Photography, Pittsburgh Photos, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: arlington, city scene, inflatable, Mike Feinberg, photo of the day, photoblog, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday2011, snow, sports fans, Steelers, team spirit, trolley, urban scene, winter scene 14 Comments

Steam Cleaning 100 Years of Soot and Grime

I drive by this structure most days, the corner of Stanton and Negley. It was in bad repair for a long time. Then it started to be cared for and fixed up. Attended some poetry readings here a couple of years ago. The accumulation of soot speaks of another time in Pittsburgh’s history, when the mills ran around the clock,spewing “carbon, sulfur dioxides and gypsum” (residue listed when they cleaned the Cathedral of Learning) . The buildings with the evidence of another time are dwindling. Tomorrow I will get the name of the company who is doing the cleaning and add it to this post.

The Union Project homepage states “Union Project’s purpose is to create connections and opportunities for learning through the arts and through community-based programming intended to serve the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods.” (click here for entire mission statement and more info on space rental and programs, stained glass classes and ceramics)

The right side is already cleaned, and the tower is being worked on now. I was at a red light and got the one man cleaning the tower but turned the corner and pulled over and rolled down the window to catch the other two workers and the contrast of the clean and the remaining visibile sign of the mills.

Formerly Union Baptist Church — Beautifying and serving the community.

Diana Nelson Jones wrote an article 12/11/10 in the Post-Gazette about the restoration of all the stained glass windows.

Union Project Closeup — This cannot be easy work!

January 19, 2011January 18, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Light in the City, Pittsburgh Photos, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: architecture, Ceramics, city scene, community, HIghland Park, neighborhood, New York City, photo of the day, photography, Pittbsurgh, Post-Gazette, postaday2011, sidewalk, stained glass, steam cleaning, Union Project, urban scene 19 Comments

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City Alley in Afternoon Light

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Monongahela River Like a Mirror

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What I Found Across from School

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The Old Gray Mare (or Stallion?)

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