Father Pitt

Category: Nature

  • Little Waterfalls

  • Crabapple Blossoms

    Crabapple blossoms
    More crabapple blossoms

  • The Forest Awakens

    Tree trunks

    Some scenes along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel, just before the big spring show begins.

    Waterfall
    Tree flowers
    Gorge

  • Early Tulip

    Tulip

  • Bracket Fungus

  • Daffodils

  • Fiddleheads

    A fern rising from the leaves along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.

  • Spring Wildflowers

    Ficaria verna with a tree silhouette

    Spring flowers are blooming everywhere, and that means that our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis is filling up with more pictures. Here are a few to get you started, and you can see many more over there.

    Cardamine hirsuta
    Dicentra cucullaria
    Cardamine concatenata

  • Pussy Willow

    Pussy Willow

    An interesting thing to know about pussy willow is that the cut branches will root in water. Last year old Pa Pitt was given a bouquet of pussy-willow branches, which rooted in the vase. Planted in a big tub, they grew plenty of catkins this year, of which these are a few.

  • Pussy Willow in the Rain