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Big Boy Locomotive #4014 in Glenfield PA

Friends Debbie and Sy invited us to come see the giant steam locomotive with their visiting family and then see fireworks later in the evening. We had a great time. We were at a fenced in playground so the kids were safe. And they brought chairs! Nice planning. We went across the Ohio River to their house for dinner and then headed to Avalon for fireworks! What a day.

Click to Watch a minute + video of Big Boy #4014

You hear it before you see it.

Spectators captured by Deb. I was at the wheel

Deb and Sy went to Euclid Ohio June 8th last week and saw the giant Big Boy engine stopped, with a crowd and here are a few of the pics they sent me

Fireworks venue in Avalon
we were in bleacher seats

On the way home I pulled over for “Night Couch” bonus

July 11, 2026July 12, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Photography, trainsTags: Big Boy #4014, Glenfield, locomotive, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, steam engine, Union Pacific 13 Comments

Birthday Flowers

July 6, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, bouquet, flowers, lily, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 12 Comments

Filling the Sugar Bowl

Do you keep a sugar bowl?

A friend was coming for coffee today and she enjoys a bit of sweetness in her coffee.I was filling my old Fostoria sugar bowl from my maternal grandmother as it doesn’t have a lid .

I drink my coffee black these days and although I love coffee ice cream I don’t add sugar to my hot coffee.

July 6, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: coffee, Fostoria, glass, kitchen, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, sugar, sugar bowl 12 Comments

So close, colorful and loud!

Thanks for a happy Fourth of July celebration Debbie and Sy.

Holding your mom’s special happy birthday plate and then I had a slice of cake on it. Thank you. Photo by Deb’s dear friend Michelle

Lisa and her medley of roasted vegetables

July 4, 2026July 5, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, cake, celebration, July 4th, Neville Island, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 16 Comments

Something You Don’t See Everyday

Wednesday morning we were at the Kamin Science Center on the North Shore. Shanti saw the grasshoppers in the terrarium and said “he’s getting a piggy back ride.”

***Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers*** are toxic to predators

July 1, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Eastern Lubbers, grasshoppers, insects, Kamin Science Center, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 2 Comments

Hiding in the Very Eric Carle Exhibit at the Children’s Museum

Shanti and I had a great day at the Children’s Museum on the Northside.

At the Children’s Museum Very Eric Carle

In case you couldn’t find her in the grass

June 30, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #PGHKIDS, childhood, childrens museum, Eric Carle, family, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 10 Comments

A Double Couch Discard Day

I know these two couches had some adventures to tell. Shanti and I were headed to the Groceria in Bloomfield neighborhood to pick up a couple of meatball subs/hoagies/sandwiches for some friends. Oh my. I pulled over to the curb. Put the flashers on

We both got out of the car. She was as excited as I was to see TWO abandoned couches in front of the apartment building.

You do know I don’t go looking for these things, right? But there they were

Wait up for me. I’m coming as fast as I can !

June 25, 2026 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, couch, duscard, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 17 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

June 23, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wordless WednesdayTags: japanese maple, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, seed 10 Comments

Doughnut Evidence

Sometimes at midnight you hear the engines reving up. You might have been asleep already.

But the roaring, screeching and squealing of tires travels up the hill from the lower road in the park.

Here’s some evidence of doughnuts by hot rods. “A doughnut (or donut) is a vehicle driving maneuver characterized by an intentional and sustained oversteeraction. The maneuver entails rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion. This creates a circular skid-mark pattern of vulcanized rubber on the pavement and typically generates significant. Tire smoke due to friction. “

June 21, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: cars, doughnuts, hot rod, neighborhood, park, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Road, rubber marks 10 Comments

Saving a Turtle in the Road

We had left the pool and were going home

I didn’t really want to pick it up

but with the guidance of my friend Beverly on the cell phone and a grocery bag as a glove, I got it off the pavement onto the park’s grass. It had even crawled under my car!

Beverly’s husband Henry is the zoological expert and he identified the species from my pic A Red Ear Slider which I looked up and unfortunately is an invasive species due to pet releases.

Video https://youtu.be/zI_jHWsFMjI?is=-Kvi0ZbNWfDYWiS5

June 19, 2026 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, PhotographyTags: HIghland Park, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, turtle 8 Comments

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Big Boy Locomotive #4014 in Glenfield PA

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