museum – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Friday Night on the North Side

Friday after he got home from work, Steve asked me to go to the Andy Warhol Museum, use our museum memberships. We always say we are going to go to one of the museums every month and although I went with the grandkids to the Carnegie Science Center twice recently and the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, he and I have not kept up with our plan. Four museums in one membership is a great deal but you have to utilize it! Tonight we were remembering going the night the Warhol opened in 1994. We had a beer and sat on the couch, a nice man offered to take our photo as he saw me struggle with a selfie attempt. We took a walk to the river after our visit.

September 16, 2017September 16, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allegheny River, Andy Warhol Museum, art, Carnegie Museum, museum, North Side, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Robert Clemente, Roberto Clemente Bridge, Willie Mays 8 Comments

iPhone Sunday pictures

July 23, 2017July 23, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Art, PhotographyTags: art, Carnegie Museum of Art, childhood, CMOA, dinosaur bones, grandkids, grandma, Monet, museum, photography, postaday, VanGogh 6 Comments

Michael at the Children’s Museum and Cloud Arbor

Michael is visiting Pittsburgh along with sister Maura and cousin Charlie. Today we went to the Children’s Museum on the North Side.

all the family loves the Ned Kahn’s Cloud Arbor

July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, PhotographyTags: childrens museum, Cloud Arbor, family, museum, Ned Kahn, photography, PIttsburghkids, postaday, travel 8 Comments

Being a tourist in my own city

When you turn 65 in Pittsburgh you can apply for a free PAT bus pass.

Monday morning I went downtown on the 71 B. I am going to familiarize myself with schedules and routes but having a smart phone is a big help

You can pick the stop where you’re waiting it tells you how many minutes until a bus arrives. My plan is to visit all of the 88 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh.

Here’s Day One of my Free Bus Pass Photography Adventure.Me waiting at Highland and Bryant for the 71 B to go downtown.

Meet Kevin M. who accepted my medicare card until I get the pass.

His portrait will be wonderful in the People at Work show next July.

taken as I exited the bus, with his gracious permission.

The Port Authority where you fill out your application to get your bus pass.

I went to the City County Building where I was greeted by a sign and a bronze statue of Mayor Caligiuri

Mayor Caligiuri by Robert Berks 1990

Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh

I rejoined the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland

Crabcake and Slaw lunch at the Union Grill

St. Paul Cathedral as I went to the next Bus Stop to get to Shadyside where they were setting up a Vintage Car Show on Walnut Street

Cars arriving in trailers I caught the next bus on Highland Avenue and guess who my driver was? Yep you guessed. Turns out Kevin went to the same high school as my sons but he was a class ahead of Mark.

Steve and I took a ride up to Shadyside later to see the vintage cars but it was raining

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 65, bus, bus pass, Carnegie Museum of Art, cathedral, downtown, Mayor Caliguiri, museum, Oakland, Penguins, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Photography, Port Authority, Senior Citizen, Shadyside, tourist, transportation, travel, University of Pittsburgh, vintage car, weather 18 Comments

Night at the Museum

November 26, 2016November 26, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Art, PhotographyTags: angels, architecture, art, Christmas Tree, family, Jerusalem, knights, Metropolitan Museum of Art, museum, New York City, scukpture, spinning, stained glass window, travel, Vincent Van Gogh 8 Comments

Eggs of Another Color

Labriola’s Italian Grocery

Pratt Museum Homer Alaska

and thinking about the idiomatic phrase horse of another color

October 18, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: colored eggs, eggs, English Language, flavored eggs, food, grocery, idiom, museum, photography, postaday 10 Comments

Fort Okanogan Interpretive Center

We drove in and parked. Through the exhibits and a video we learned a lot about the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Hunting, fishing, artifacts, fur trading industry, There was an exhibit about the 2014 wildfires in the area We were welcomed at the front desk and shown around by the Museum Coordinator- Kristen Heidenthal

Anthropology & Museum Studies majors as undergrad and a Master’s in Archives and Administration

Dugout Canoe belonged to Long Jim a chief of the Chelan Tribe

September 3, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Confederated Tribes of Colville, dugout canoe, Fort Okanogan, history, Interpretive Center, museum, Museum Coordinator, Native American, photography, postaday, travel, Washington, wildfire 8 Comments

1961 Jaguar E-Type Roadster at MOMA

MOMA Collections 1960-69

March 31, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1961, car, Jaguar, MOMA, museum, New York City, photography, postaday, roadster 10 Comments

New York City Seen

March 23, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Light in the City, PhotographyTags: architecture, Bleecker Street, brownstone, Easter bunny, librarian, magnolia blossom, museum, New York City, oeople, photography, postaday, Spring, subway, travel 8 Comments

Missing Degas by a Day

Dance Dance Dance
The Dancers. All those ballerinas. I had a framed print on my childhood wall.
I’m visiting my sister but Wednesday we’re headed to family in Ohio.
On Monday at MOMA, I read signs of the Edgar Degas exhibit which previews the day we leave the city-glimpses of what I’d miss were represented in the gift shop.

Degas dancers on bookmarks,stationery, prints to be framed, journals, magnets, a children’s book. Not a mug in sight!

The entrance to the exhibit, cordoned off until tomorrow for members.