city scene – Ruth E. Hendricks

Drive By Night Game at PNC Park

Charlie (11) captured the night game as we entered the city Saturday night.

August 10, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Baseball, bridge, city scene, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, PNC Park, postaday 2 Comments

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.

June 17, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Music, PhotographyTags: bellman, city scene, Clarinet, Darryl Cann, George Benson, musical instruments, musician, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 8 Comments

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

June 4, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, PhotographyTags: animals in the city, bunny, city scene, family, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, rabbit 8 Comments

Problem and Solution

February 4, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: city scene, knitting, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather 9 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

February 3, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: city scene, parking, parking chair, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, respect the chair, weather, winter, wordless wednesday 14 Comments

Street Parking Space Savers

The first photo is from 2010. What they called Snowmageddon.

STREET PARKING PLACEHOLDER

Street Parking Space Savers- revisiting Snowmageddon 2010. Many people are experiencing more snow right now. So is it a Pittsburgh thing? You see all kinds of chairs reserving parking spaces all around the city after someone has shoveled out their space, planning to return to it, later.
I’ve seen a port-a-crib to reserve a parking space!

And here’s the update on our 2026 snow. Thursday the fourth day that school is cancelled.