photo of the day – Ruth E. Hendricks

Along North Euclid Avenue

Friday morning on the way to camp.

July 17, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, chair, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 3 Comments

Lollipop Stick Holding Gusset Stitches

Car knitting today.

I needed to hold stitches for the gusset, the thumb hole. No barber cord, no pony bead lacing, no waste yarn available in the car. Old Halloween litter from a school party. I bent the Tootsie Roll Pop stick to hold the stitches while I continued to knit up the hand of the mitten. Pattern is Quick Bulky Mitten by Aimee Pelletier

Woolly Thistle Bag. **Malabrigo Caracol**
purchased last year in Millvale at **McWalker Yarns**

“Malabrigo Caracol is hand-dyed, super bulky superwash merino wool yarn reminiscent of stained glass art.”

I stopped by a friend’s house to drop off some yarn. Took and Jack’s leaves are reminiscent of the yarn colors.

November 28, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Fiber Art, knitting, PhotographyTags: Aimee Pelletier, autumn leaves, bulky yarn, knitting, leaves, litter, Malabrigo, mitten, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, postaday, Tootsie Roll Pop 9 Comments

Full Moon over Pittsburgh

Photographed Thursday evening 11/6
from the
Duquesne Incline platform

November 6, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: city lights, city scene, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 8 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

October 28, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #wordlesswednesday, childhood, city scene, family, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather, wordless wednesday 4 Comments

Black Mission Figs

Photographed at Idylwilde in Acton MA while on vacation. They likes so inviting to me

October 12, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Figs, fruit, photo of the day, photography, postaday, travel 7 Comments

The gift of flowers

From my neighbor. She got them at the Farmer’s Market today. I’d given some knitting help. What a gorgeous autumn bouquet. I put the flowers in my vintage hammered aluminum pitcher.

Thank you Cathy

September 28, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bouquet, flowers, friendship, front porch, knitting, neighbors, photo of the day, photography, postaday 9 Comments

Trying to Propagate Christmas Cactus

Not just any Christmas Cactus but plant cuttings from my mother’s Christmas Cactus. Although my mother passed 25 years ago, her Christmas Cactus is thriving in Albany. Thanks E for cutting the pieces! And thanks to my sister for mailing the cuttings. They made it to Pittsburgh just fine.

I dried them off and let them sit a day as it said they’d be less likely to rot

I looked at YouTube and Google and there’s the water method and the dirt method.

I’m trying both.

Stay tuned. Hopefully there will be many plant children.

Schlumbergera is the Latin name

Here’s how to care for the Christmas Cactus

My gardening friend said to break them off so they are shorter. Can’t try to root and also grow up simultaneously

September 12, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Christmas Cactus, photo of the day, photography, plants, postaday, propagate 17 Comments

Doe a Deer, Not Yard Art

Friday morning,I was walking to my friend Tookie’s house to drop off a pompom maker. The little elf hats we were knitting for Xmas babies needed a little pompom. . I’d gotten an extra maker coat the clearance sale.

Iuccc CFC on the phone as I headed her way. She told me to look up the driveway and see the doe, resting in the upper yard.

I really had to look hard. The doe never blinked and I walked around taking these photos,

Thanks for the tip, Tookie!

If you can’t see the doe in photo 1 scroll down to see

November 16, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn leaves deer, doe, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather, wildlife 11 Comments

2-Door Dodge Dart Swinger from the Seventies?

“Top Banana” yellow.

Photographed from the back seat window Thursday November 7
**Dodge Dart Swinger**

November 7, 2024 by Ruth Categories: cars, PhotographyTags: classic car, photo of the day, photography, postaday, top banana, travel, vintage 5 Comments

November Sky from a Backseat Window

Wednesday late afternoon

Concord Massachusetts

November 6, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: clouds, Concord MA, photo of the day, photography, postaday, sky, travel, weather 6 Comments

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