Wordless Wednesday

Doughnut Evidence

Sometimes at midnight you hear the engines reving up. You might have been asleep already.

But the roaring, screeching and squealing of tires travels up the hill from the lower road in the park.

Here’s some evidence of doughnuts by hot rods. “A doughnut (or donut) is a vehicle driving maneuver characterized by an intentional and sustained oversteeraction. The maneuver entails rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion. This creates a circular skid-mark pattern of vulcanized rubber on the pavement and typically generates significant. Tire smoke due to friction. “

Tire rubber met the road

Saving a Turtle in the Road

We had left the pool and were going home

I didn’t really want to pick it up

but with the guidance of my friend Beverly on the cell phone and a grocery bag as a glove, I got it off the pavement onto the park’s grass. It had even crawled under my car!

Beverly’s husband Henry is the zoological expert and he identified the species from my pic A Red Ear Slider which I looked up and unfortunately is an invasive species due to pet releases.

Video https://youtu.be/zI_jHWsFMjI?is=-Kvi0ZbNWfDYWiS5

Shanti took this photo

Summer Day Shadows

Meet Mr. Darryl Cann

The City of Pittsburgh Roving Art Cart opened the season at the Highland Park Super Playground on June 16th. There was a puppet show and Mr. Cann’s Aunt Mary Lou Williams was being honored in the show so he came to participate. He plays five instruments I learned. And he told me he’s a retired Bellman of the historic and classic Omni William Penn Hotel downtown. Over the decades he met over 350 celebrities he said.

Here he is playing along with a recording of the famous George Benson. He gave us his gift of live music. Click to listen https://youtu.be/_yizufqbZ0Q?is=1WUC2GDWpnEuDTDk

At a picnic table in Maple Grove shelter at the Citparks Super Playground.

The Neighbor’s Million Bells

What are Calibrachoa Flowers?

Named after a 19th-century Mexican botanist, Calibrachoa (pronounced kal-ih-bruh-KO-uh), sometimes referred to as million bells or trailing petunia, are akin to petunias but boast tiny, one-inch, trumpet-shaped flowers. 

Want to grow them?

Click here for Universityhttps://extension.umn.edu/flowers/calibrachoa Minnesota Extension information

Birthday Bouquets for Partygoers

And Flowers Pittsburgh is a local small business. Thursday evening I met Karen Toole, who along with a team of seven, arranged more than 75 bouquets of colorful flowers for the occasion!

Everyone got to take home a pretty bouquet that adorned my friend’s birthday celebration.

I learned you can host a flower arranging party for 5-10 friends or attend a floral design class in their studio.

Karen Toole of And Flowers Pittsburgh
A party favor of flowers
Gorgeous flowers
Guests leaving with bouquets in white bags.
How about this gift of jacket for my friend? Happy Birthday Nancy
What a lovely birthday cake

Silent Sunday

I was a passenger in the car so could capture the message on the pedestrian bridge .
UPMC Shadyside Hospital Pittsburgh

Did you ever read Watership Down?

My granddaughter Shanti (6) photographed the bunny in the yard next door.

I think of the book when I see rabbits in the wild.

Watership Down is a classic 1972 adventure novel by Richard Adams about a group of wild rabbits fleeing their doomed warren to find a new home, facing predators, challenges, and building a new society on Watership Down in England

She captured a little video of the bunny on the move

How I got a garden of ferns

The previous neighbor had planted ferns. Along his side of the driveway. I’d never planted a single fern on my side Only a couple survived on his side . Just look at the lush ferns that blew over to me.

One fern left

. But look at what blew over to my side!

The ferns on my side of the digest care plentiful
My neighbors fern ,,