friend – Page 3 – Ruth E. Hendricks

In Joan’s Garden

My friend Joan has a lovely garden.

Bee on zinnia

October 1, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Garden, PhotographyTags: bee, friend, garden, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, zinnia 7 Comments

Guardian Angel

Weekly photo challenge -SHADOW

February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Tribute to a Friend, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: angel, candle, candlelight, friend, guardian angel, memories, photography, postaday, shadow, weekly photo challenge 14 Comments

Learning to Knit Mittens

Five hours in. Knitting a mitten. A Baby Alpaca yarn mitten. I looked at the clock. I knew what time I turned on the TV and what time I turned it off .Time to stop knitting and get to bed.

The Weekly Photo Challenge is relax but I remember some people found learning to knit stressful. Have to get past the possibly awkward part of learning the basics before you get to the Zen. Holding the needles. Finding the right place to stick the point.

My friend Ann texted (after a volley of texts about the miserable weather and whether we really NEEDED yarn) that she’d pick me up and we’d go to Oakmont to the Yarns by Design store. She brought a fingerless mitt and a matching cowl she’d completed and since I had the same pattern at home –Susan B. Anderson Waiting for Winter Mittens pattern– I felt inspired to knit mittens Thanks, Ann.

Now I Thought I’d start the new effort in the morning .. but the new yarn spoke to me and I started.

Ann said they worked up faster than socks. She’s right about that!

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: baby alpaca, friend, knitting, mittens, oakmont, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, relax, Susan B. Anderson, weather, yarn, Yarns by Design 12 Comments

Photographed at My Friend’s House

Thanks for letting me photograph the top of your piano, Cj. It spoke to me

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: board games, childhood, friend, games, photography, play, postaday, toys and games 5 Comments

Remember the Wildflowers Painted by My Friend?

The Pennsylvania wildflowers were painted on her beehives -see the Wildflower paintings on Beehives by Joan

Here’s one jar of the thirty pounds of honey she harvested with the help of two fellow bee experts.

They brought their extractor with them to show and teach her how to harvest the honey.

She shared the honey with them and learned how to do it herself but was best with the team. (I’m sorry I don’t recall how long it took but a few hours.)

And I can tell you that it tastes beautifully delicious, full of summer flowers. I’ll have to ask Joan what she does to prepare the beehives for the winter.

In case you want to learn how watch video

How to extract honey from comb

August 22, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: beehive, beekeeping, food, friend, garden, harvest, honey, honey extractor, honeybee, nature, wildflowers 13 Comments

My Friend wrote “I made the papers without dying or getting arrested!”

He got my attention!

(Anyone who knows Bill McCafferty will get it)

He texted me this photo first and wrote-

“Go ahead. Ask me where I got this!”

Our local paper is Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Hmmmm I had no idea, Bill.

Then he sends photo #2.

Check out Third Place

A winner of the caption contest 293.

Artist of the cartoon-Stacy Inherst

click Stacy Innerst Website to check out his illustrations

Congratulations Bill. Very exciting. So glad you are alive and not in jail.

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: art, caption contest, cartoon, coffee mug, friend, guest blog, humir, illustration, photography, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, postaday, Stacy Innerst, winner 11 Comments

Cherry on Top of a Burnt Almond Torte

Cherry on Top

The fun weekly photo challenge by Michelle W. I should get in the car and head to a local ice cream shop but it’s really humid and hot and we’ve already been out for dinner. Wish I knew the Cherry on Top challenge beforehand but then I remembered a Cherry on Top I photographed six years ago.

The following was posted in May 2010. Since then the Burnt Almond Torte was declared America’s Greatest Cake Here’s the article Thank You, Pittsburgh, For The Greatest Cake America Has Ever Made (By the way, I never saw a cherry on top of a Prantl’s Burnt Almond Torte)

Burnt Almond Torte And here is the original writing from my May 2010 blog post

Burnt Almond Torte and Copycat Recipe

Different regions prefer certain pastries, baked goods. Burnt Almond Torte is popular in Pittsburgh. I’ve seen it as a wedding cake. tiered! Who brought the recipe here I don’t know but many Pittsburghers LOVE it. I’d never tasted one until we moved here. This one is from the Oakmont Bakery. Joan brought it to dinner one night. We split it three ways. Don’t know who ate the cherry. Not me. But before we devoured it, I photographed it. Here is a link to the Recipezaar Copycat Prantl’s Burnt Almond Torte recipe in case you want to have a taste of Pittsburgh Pastry/Dessert. I hear there’s one where chocolate is involved.

Checking the Copycat Recipe is still valid, YES!!!

The Molasses Swamp is now a Chocolate Swamp post was a slow low day on the blog today. Bet this Cherry on Top will top it!!

July 22, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: baking, Burnt Almond Torte, cake, Cherry on Top, copycat recipe, dessert, friend, Oakmont Bakery, photography, postaday, Prantl's Bakery, recipe, summer, torte, weekly photo challenge 21 Comments

Apples Wait to be Pressed into Cider- October 2009

This is a reblog- originally posted October 2009.

Sand Hill Berry Farm Cider Press- Bushels of Apples- October Sunday-Mt. Pleasant, PA

Red Currants and Red Raspberries their specialty, not to mention the gooseberries to make jam. Raspberry pies, and free raspberry sundaes. We roasted hot dogs over a fire, and marshmallows to make s’mores.

Autumn color in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania is hard to beat. The barn was filled with the smell of apples.

Original four comments. Zero likes . My friend Dorothy passed in 2010. A Memorial Poetry Reading is being planned for this November 13, 2015.

Ruth, what a wonderful angle to take your picture to include indoors, outdoors and I can almost smell the apples.
Dorothy

Marlene

Great picture!

Toni

Great seeing you there in the beautiful countryside with your family. What a picture perfect day!! Those sundaes were really good! Love the photo!!

Donna

How beautiful the colors came out!! Always the photographer

September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apple cider, apple press, apples, autumn, barn, cider press, fall, friend, harvest, Laurel Highlands, Mt. pleasant PA, photography, poetry reading, postaday, reblog, red currants, sand hill berry farm, seasons 8 Comments

The Story of the Flag Dishes

My friend J found these dishes in a kitchen consignment store in Omaha-The Pot and Ladle.

J had them packed and moved with her when she relocated to Florida.

And then she wrapped them in bubble wrap and packed them herself in about eight boxes and shipped them to me in Pittsburgh.

When your birthday is the Fourth of July, people see red white and blue and think of you.

Last night I had house guests so got up and baked blueberry muffins with a container of greek yogurt (vanilla) and used one of the American Colonial plates (designed by Warren Kimble in 1997) When I looked up Warren Kimble it said he is “the best known living American Folk Artist”

(noticed I used the red, white and blue potholder I wove a few years ago)

August 12, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: American flag dishes, blueberry muffins, folk artist, Fourth of July, friend, kitchen, muffins, The Pot and Ladle, Warren Kimble 11 Comments

A Full Pound in Zeke’s Bag of Beans

You know how I love coffee. That one wonderful cup in the morning.

This morning I receive a text from a colleague who’s teaching art in a different school this year.

He texted where to come for coffee in East Liberty. Zeke’s. Huh? I couldn’t picture it in my mind.

Zeke’s Coffee on Penn Ave at Highland Ave. Only 1.5 miles from my home. I found it easily once I made the left turn onto Penn it was right there all the time.

And I’ve driven 50 feet from it several times a day and not turned down that particular block on my route.

Today was the first time I was introduced to the locally roasted delicious coffee. And they’ve been there since 2011!

I bought two bags for friends and family to try and my car smelled like a roastery when I got home. Mmmmmm.

Owned by Chris and Tom (who were out at Farmers Market selling the full one pound bags of their beans that they roasted themselves) In fact that’s how they started at Farmers Market and now they go to NINE of them. ( I looked it up and there was no apostrophe in Farmers Market)

I met Brye the baker (wife of Chris) and Alex was the barista and operated the register. I asked if I could photograph them for the blog and they agreed. Steve and I plan to return in the morning when they open at 8.

Brye bakes

My friend waiting for me

Alex the barista

Full one pound bags

September 6, 2014September 6, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Baking, People at Work, PhotographyTags: art teacher, baked goods, Baker, cafe, coffee, coffee roaster, East Liberty, friend, neighborhood, Pittsburgh Photography, Saturday Monning, travel, Zeke's Coffee Pittsburgh 12 Comments

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In Joan’s Garden

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Guardian Angel

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Learning to Knit Mittens

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Photographed at My Friend’s House

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Remember the Wildflowers Painted by My Friend?

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My Friend wrote “I made the papers without dying or getting arrested!”

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Cherry on Top of a Burnt Almond Torte

Cherry on Top

The fun weekly photo challenge by Michelle W. I should get in the car and head to a local ice cream shop but it’s really humid and hot and we’ve already been out for dinner. Wish I knew the Cherry on Top challenge beforehand but then I remembered a Cherry on Top I photographed six years ago.

Burnt Almond Torte and Copycat Recipe

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Apples Wait to be Pressed into Cider- October 2009

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Original four comments. Zero likes . My friend Dorothy passed in 2010. A Memorial Poetry Reading is being planned for this November 13, 2015.

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The Story of the Flag Dishes

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The fun weekly photo challenge by Michelle W. I should get in the car and head to a local ice cream shop but it’s really humid and hot and we’ve already been out for dinner. Wish I knew the Cherry on Top challenge beforehand but then I remembered a Cherry on Top I photographed six years ago.

Burnt Almond Torte and Copycat Recipe

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