“Artisanal hot & cold coffee drinks and light fare in an offbeat, local art-lined setting.”
And read about the Biddle Brothers escape with the help of Mrs Soffel on Haunted tours of Pittsburgh (Wife of the jail warden in 1901)
Sunday December 15 at
WILKINSBURG PA Train Station
WCDC Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation
Hassle-Feee Car Care Delivered to You
Built in 1916. Vacant for 50 years. Full Restoration completed in 2019.
Laura, Roy and I went to the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus Ohio.
The Glass Ornament trees were something to see! The weather was a bit gray and wet but our spirits weren’t dampened.
What Steve Put on the Mantel
Reblog from 15 years ago –
“Deborah McLaren’s still life is one I purchased at the PERSAD Celebrate Life Celebrate Art auction at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh last May.
The other day I sat at the table, looked up and saw Steve’s additions to the decor. He has been purchasing RITZ crackers frequently since I bought the painting, subliminal influence? I wrote to the artist for her permission to post the image of her painting along with his props. Steve’s fun additions- the unexpected sight of them in front of the still life- I laughed out loud! How to make life fun!
Still Life Painting by Deborah McLaren
Come see my friend’s artwork
Roberto Clemente. #21 Right Fielder Pirates Baseball 1955-1972/ Humanitarian
Special induction into National Baseball Hall of Fame 1973
Born 1934- 1972 killed in plane crash on a mission to provide supplies for earthquake relief
These colorfully painted spheres caught my eye as we walked to the Riverfront Park along the Hudson. here are a few examples.
“WALK TO THE WATER IN HUDSON SQUARE
The Hudson Square BID (Business Improvement District) and artist Clementine Martinez have created a way-finding system that uses outdoor art pieces to take viewers through a historical walking tour of the neighborhood. The exhibit leads viewers to the river past 20 painted spheres on a path along Spring and Washington streets to the new crossing to Hudson River Park just south of the Google building at St. John’s Terminal. The artworks are accompanied by a digital guide that dive deeper into the events and places that inspired each artwork with members of the community sharing stories about the neighborhood” from the TriBeCa Citizen
My granddaughter took a photo of me and two good knitting friends as we sat on my front porch, knitting.
One friend Terry was knitting socks with the Woolens and Nosh Yarn colorway actually named Porch Knitting.
Our friend Randi was knitting a Hawthorne Tank by Caitlin Hunter.
I was knitting Christmas Socks with Must Stash Yarn that Terry had given me.
I shared the photo of the three of us with our Knitting Buddies Zoom group.
And the photo inspired one of our members to paint us -Porch Knitting.
It was Joanne’s first time using acrylics and she was visiting her sister Mary who was tutoring her on using the new paints. Joanne usually paints with watercolors.
Here’s her first acrylic painting-
Porch Knitting
Granddaughter Maura called from Minneapolis today to share what she was looking at while she was on vacation- Spoonbridge and Cherry
by artists Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.
Earlier this year Maura did a school report on Oldenburg for Art Class and we had looked at some of Oldenburg’s public art sculpture online and discussed locations where they could be viewed.
And here she was today, getting the chance to experience this huge sculpture in person. Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is adjacent to the Walker Art Center
“The spoon itself weighs 5,800 pounds and the cherry, another 1,200 pounds. The cherry’s stem also acts as a fountain which sprays into the bowl of the spoon and off into the pond beneath”
It was very exciting to get Maura’s Face Time call and to see it at the same time as she was looking right at it.
And then she sent two pictures. I took the third one as a screen shot as we were on the call.
Here’s an article about this iconic and “quirky Landmark”
In 2016 I took a fun photo on Mt.Washington in Pittsburgh inspired by Spoonbridge and Cherry
On Top of the World post
