Category: Nature

  • First of the Daylilies, Last of the Tulips

    Tulip with daylily in the background

    Yes, old Pa Pitt did plant tulips right in front of this patch of daylilies just to prove that he has daylilies that bloom in tulip season.

    Very early daylily
    Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.

    The variety has no name, because it came from a batch of unnamed hybrid seedlings. But every year it reliably produces the earliest daylily flowers Father Pitt knows of, and every year he takes its picture, with a tulip in the frame if possible.

  • Mushroom on a Log

    Bracket fungus
    Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.

    In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.

  • Dandelion Seeds

  • Lily of the Valley

  • Sun Through Japanese Maple

  • Fiddleheads

    Christmas Fern fiddlehead

    Fiddleheads of Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) unrolling along the Trillium Trail, Fox Chapel.

    Polystichum acrostichoides
    Fiddlehead
    Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.
  • Waxing Gibbous Moon

    Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church with waxing gibbous moon
    Fujifilm FinePix HS10.

    With Calvary Methodist Church, Allegheny West, in the foreground.

  • Backlit Tulips

    Because there’s no such thing as too many tulips.

  • Tulips

  • More Apple Blossoms

    Apple blossoms

    Early in the morning, with some crabapples thrown in.

    Crabapple blossoms
    Apple blossoms
    Crabapple blossoms

    And then the sun came up…

    Apple blossoms in morning sun
    Fuji FinePix HS10.