This photograph from Frank Curto Park, across the Allegheny, reminded Father Pitt of the old sepia gravure factory prints of a hundred years ago. So why not offer it in sepia tones? Much of the old Heinz complex is now loft apartments, but the buildings are remarkably intact, and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bright orange mushrooms, probably a species of Laetiporus (mushroom lovers are invited to correct this identification), growing on a log in Frick Park. Behind them, Orange Touch-Me-Nots (Impatiens capensis) are blooming in almost exactly the same shade of orange.
Mercy Hospital and part of Duquesne University seen from across the Monongahela.
Heinz Field seen from Mount Washington on a sunny morning.
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The skeleton is in place and the sides are filling in.
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Central Oakland seen in the last rays of evening sun.
A doe browsing in the Allegheny Cemetery, a rural landscape smack in the middle of the city. Deer in the great cemeteries have a pretty soft life, but deer are found in almost every city neighborhood with even a small patch of woods. This picture has been donated to Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, so no permission is needed to use it for any purpose whatsoever.
In the light of the setting sun, St. Basil’s presides benevolently over part of Carrick, a neighborhood of steep and crowded hills.
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A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) stalks its prey in a pond near Cranberry.
