(Well some necessary words to give credit to the artist and creator )
“The metal bike racks were designed by Millvale-based graphic designer Tom Walker and built by Geoff Blanchard of Red Star Ironworks, also in the borough. The circular design shows open books of shrinking size nested inside each other.”
Through the years on the blog.Happy Groundhog’s Day.
Groundhog’s Day first celebration in Punxsutawney was in 1886.
Snippets from previous Groundhog’s Day Posts. If you want more pics or details, click on underlined links.
Let’s see if there is a clear day with a shadow or an early Spring for 2017.
History of Groundhog’s Day– from Stormfax
Groundhog Day Filmed in Woodstock Illinois
Punxsutawney Phil Declares 6 More Weeks of Winter
Shout out to Kyle Kline on the bass
And yes we were there Me. Laura and my sister Mary
Groundhog Sports Black and Gold Beads
Michael on left and Jack on the right with Baby Groundhog (a family puppet)
Groundhog BrewSkumps Groundhog
Groundhog Day Movie Capture Pittsburgh SkylineThe Pittsburgh Skyline before all the neon signs on the buildings
They’ve been open since Halloween. Today was my first visit.
You know how I zip across the Allegheny River to get my framing done at Panza Gallery, sip a brew and eat a dinner special at Grant Bar or load up on Brioche and macarons at Jean-Marc Chatteliers Bakery?
Millvale PA posts frequent the blog.
This afternoon I stopped in the Tupelo Honey Teas Cafe and had a delicious ginger tea.
There’s a monthly calendar of activities and events-
January 19th it’s Third Thursday Theater- Steel City Shakespeare- Edgar Allen Poe 7-9 ,
Knitting on Tuesdays at 6:30-9
Book Club(s) local author and mystery,
Brunch and Bluegrass (Devin Moses) on Jan 29th 10-2
There is a connecting door to the Community Library
Good things to eat 
Spotted by Steve. Saturday night
Grant Avenue- Millvale PA
Artist’s Choice Show Opening at Panza Gallery in Millvale PA
At Panza Gallery Saturday night. What a crowd!
It’s good to get out. Steve went with me.
I volunteered to photograph the event which was a great way to meet the artists and art appreciators who attended. I am posting just a few now.
Artist Lesla in front of his work and Laura . Turns out I photographed Laura when she worked at Bread and Salt Bakery in Bloomfield and she was on the blog.
Our host Mark Panza
Patty Hill
Marian Phillips
A few of the artists with their work
The mayor of Millvale, Vincent Cinski, with his wife, the First Lady of Millvale
Me
Meet Rodney Burrell- Editor-in-Chief of LOCAL-Pittsburgh and arts/pgh LOCAL
Meet Brian Crawford The River’s Edge Station Manager “serving the communities along the Allegheny River”
Tony Cavalline and Carol Skinger
Love that purse you got in Wisconsin!
(If I missed anybody’s proper spelling of name, let me know)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up
He looked up. I looked down. Can it count for the challenge?
Mark Panza, artist, photographer and gallery owner.
He looked up at me on the stairs. Oh no, all I had was my phone.
You’ve met Mark on the blog before. He creates those peaceful mediation lights.
I was in Millvale Friday afternoon. The Pittsburgh Society of Artists Show is up and the opening is 6PM Saturday night. They were asking members who are photographers to volunteer to photograph events so I said I would. Thought I’d check it out when it was empty first. A sneak peek below. More to come.
Tomorrow night the gallery will be filled with people!
Etna Memorial Day Parade 2016 is my piece on left.
On the way home, stopped at a light in Lawrenceville. I looked up -saw the Artist Crossing Sign
Sign on Butler Street, Lawrenceville in front of Paint Monkey
(Note to self: I’d better get my windshield washed if I am going to photograph through it)
This is an honest to goodness pie map !
My two friends flew in to visit me in Pittsburgh. Earlier today we visited the Frick Mansion, Clayton.
Discussing dinner options, Steve suggested Grant Bar and Lounge in Millvale.
This map shows where all the pie eating people hail from and because Kristin ordered a coconut cream pie to go, she and Linda got a pushpin to stick on the Grant Bar and Lounge Pie Lovers map- their cities are Gainesville and Boston. (We got a tapioca to go, too) and there are some pickled beets in the take away container.
Kristin and Linda are nurse midwives I met in Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1975 and Linda on right delivered my son Mark, 40 years ago this month!
Remember the post from a few days ago about how Austin Texas is Live Music Capital of the World?
This is Cody, drummer of the hard rock band Sweat Lodge.
I met him on his way to the studio as he was picking up the VINYL master for the band’s third album.
Yep, vinyl. You all know I have plenty of vinyl in boxes in my house.
Now I’m wasn’t cool enough to know any tracks from Sweat Lodge as of yet but I went and listened and here is the link to their webpage, too.
On my first Uber ride to the Austin Airport, I said I’d be willing to carpool and although our driver Edward could not allow me to photograph him at work, Cody said it was okay by him. We dropped Cody first, I got out and photographed him.
I told him about my People at Work series and I didn’t have a hard rock musician for the upcoming show at Panza Gallery in Millvale–
(did I mention that the show’s opening is in July? July, 2018!!! I’m serious)
Thanks Cody. Check out the music.
As we drove to his destination, he gave an excellent guided tour of a part of Austin I had not seen on the double decker bus tour.
It’s good to change it up on the blog. You’ve seen a lot of my knitting, coffee mugs and tea cups, a lot of food for dinnertime, the grandkids, the recent wedding and the starring dog Champ but I think Cody has the distinction for being the first ROCK musician on the blog. Thanks Cody.
Great to have three grandkids visit for a few days. We were headed to the Children’s Museum.
Michael, 10, caught these with my camera on the phone. Teamwork makes blogging fun!
I caught the three of them by the high water mark sign.
We went by way of Millvale because I forgot the French bakery was closed on Mondays. No brioche.
Michaels edit, too.
N Northside trio of inflatable snowmen
Millvale
