A wonderful summer day.
We did NOT ride the Round Up but the spectators are in line at the Tilt-a-Whirl.
Tag: Idlewild Park
Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent
Lots of images came to mind.
The trick was digging around in the files and finding what I was envisioning for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent created by Cheri Lucas Rowlands at WordPress. Her example was excellent.
Here is my gallery of descent.
Jet Blue making descent to Baltimore July 2014
How I love being the passenger with a camera in hand. My DIL was driving.
Low clouds and a truck making descent in WV enroute to Hardy VA
Down the slide at Idlewild Park -Michael, Erika and Maura
Grandson Jack coming down the Giant Slide at Idlewild Park
Mark climbing the deer stand in Centerline OHio
Some random Skycoaster riders at Kennywood. Lots of screams
Anna diving into the pool at a swim meet. Descending into the water.
from a previous post – City Sidewalk -paper street steps- 2010 Garfield when I taught at Fort Pitt School
Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold
thresh·old noun \ˈthresh-ˌhōld, ˈthre-ˌshōld\
: a piece of wood, metal, or stone that forms the bottom of a door and that you walk over as you enter a room or building
: the point or level at which something begins or changes
Literal interpretation of Jack crossing a threshold at Idlewild Park in Storybook Forest last summer.
A couple of days before Jack was born 2007
p.s. click here to see Madhu’s entry at The Urge to Wander blog photographerd at a Shinto Shrine in Japan.
In my opinion, hers is the best of all the responses I viewed!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
The challenge of unexpected seemed fun but challenging.
Added a couple you’ve seen but seemed good for the theme. Knowing when to stop adding to the gallery is the difficult part.
The grandkids swim coach dressed as a leprechaun
Mr. Wholey on his lobster phone
Headstones and a railway car as we headed to Idlewild Park
A man seemingly peeking out of the back of the van
Quick, close your eyes for a birthday surprise, Michael.
Laura is surprised for her 30th birthday- nice party James!
Alligator and Ostrich Jerky at the Renaissance Festival
Downtown by the Convention Center a wall of pink water for Breast Cancer Awareness
A cigarette butt and a teabag in a planter downtown
Fried Pickles sign at Eat ‘N Park
Stuffed Animal Window in New York City
A churchyard full of memorial flags in Millvale.
Police having a snack in NYC
Birthday gift from her brother
Dog Wash?
Whoa
Discovering the rush of air
Two fake geese that I thought were real in Powell , Ohio
Finding the costumes at the History Center in Virginia.
Stick Your Head in for the Photo Op. Or NOT!
Standing between.
Don’t you want to be Raggedy Andy so your old grandmother can capture the moment?
Ahhh, no thanks.
I’ll just stand between the two heads.
so here is Maura between Raggedy Ann and Andy
Okay, got it.
When I saw this tonight it struck me funny. I’d forgotten about the fun time we had at Idlewild Park and was thinking about all the grading I need to accomplish this weekend for the upcoming progress reports at school.
And I saw Maura refusing the standard photo opportunity at the amusement park. She did not want to stick her head in the hole. Maybe she thinks it is a silly plan to do so. We sure found a ton of ovals in wooden cut outs. Wonder who started the first one years ago. Seems a standard practice on the boardwalk. We were here. I’ve seen them for Civil War or old fashioned sepia pics offered for $.
A few more….
Jack agrees to be Raggedy Andy- on the fly, that is.
Train conductor
Michael is totally agreeable to the task at hand. Thanks, Making it easy on Grandma,
Jack and Anna in the old fashioned car
Maybe next year, Maura. Peek- a -boo. Need a bit more height for this one.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Inside out.
Inside of an inch.
I’m here on the inside , getting the inside scoop.
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you , pales in comparison to what lies inside of you,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mostly I’m on the outside looking in. Beside myself, editing out for INSIDE.
Maybe I should title it, a glass between us.
Maura inside, me outside
Costume Store NYC
NYC W 10th Street Cleaning the Sewers Truck
Idlewild Park, You can see outside from Inside the One Room Schoolhouse
Inside the glass booth
Inside the bakery case
Construction on Carson, before the football game
Inside the press box
from the car looking into the Beehive Interior
Farewells at the graduation party
The Balloon Man
Outside of Cowgirls, looking inside
Please Do Not Climb on Top of Cheese
Anna and I were on FaceTime Wednesday evening and she asked me what I was going to blog tonight.
I didn’t have a plan, I said. She said to tell her when I was posting it so she could be the FIRST one to see it.
So I am choosing a summertime August afternoon from their recent visit. Before school started.
Storybook Forest in Idlewild Park. Ligonier PA.
The grandkids in the cheese. Well, three of them that is. The fourth, Maura was looking at her siblings peeking out of the holes.
And then tonight as I uploaded, I saw the sign on the side which I had not seen before.
Anna said “the cheese stunk.”
Stunk like what?, I asked.
She said “I don’t know, it just stunk. Like elephants.”
(Maybe it stunk but we had a great day!)
And a portrait of cousin Parker in the cheese
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual POV
Unusual POV? selected from recent shoots
Reflection at Idlewild Park Pond
Henrietta Pussycat as seen from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Trolley- Idlewild Park
Yellow Cab about to turn into the intersection as shot from the opposite curb
Sunset and the city skyline as shot from the McArdle Roadway Bridge
From McArdle Roadway Bridge, second half warm-up
As I walked to my car, after the Red, White and Blue Invitational Cross Country Meet- Schenley Park
Not so unusual but this is the McArdle Roadway Bridge where I shot the other two photos
Grandson Michael steers the Ducky boat on the Monongahela River towards the Fort Pitt Bridge
and a Pirates game on TV, as seen through a bar room window on Carson Street
Pirate Ship at Idlewild Park- Soaking Up the Last Days of Summer Fun
I was an observer, not a participant. The grandkids’ teeth were chattering by the time we headed out of the Soak Zone portion of Idlewild Park.
They really loved the wave pool, too.
Not sure who the girl is running to the tipping bucket, spilling the chilly water for the kids to play. Brrrrrr. They had a great time going down the curvy water slides. One of the workers said some of her colleagues had already left to return to college (why only one trolley was running at the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood ride.) Enjoying being with the family these last days of summer.
It was much a much cooler day than expected in August. You can feel the hint of fall in the air. Especially at night.
Mother Goose
Storybook Forest- Idlewild Park , Ligonier, PA. Nestled in a dark green forest…..
Aunt Linda talked to a worker who said the Old Woman in the Shoe was not at home in her shoe was because she had to fill in and be Mother Goose in the late afternoon.
But to the kids, this was Mother Goose, no questions asked.
Jack, Cousin Parker and sister Maura are listening attentively as she asks them about a giant in the forest. Jack knew right away who we needed to find.