Father Pitt

Category: Nature

  • Winter Tree

  • Impression of a Winter Sunset

  • Ice Cascade in Banksville

    Icicles

    Every year this cliff face in Banksville grows a beautiful cascade of icicles, and old Pa Pitt has taken pictures of it more than once. Here it is again, and no excuse is necessary.

    Ice cascade

  • Marigolds in the Snow

    Marigold in the snow
    More marigolds, more snow

  • Sunset Roofscapes

    Sunset roofscape
    Roofs at sunset
    More of the same
    With some bare branches for emphasis

  • November Colors in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon

    Maple leaves in gold
    Near the entrance
    Oak leaves
    Flash of yellow
    More maple leaves
    Deeper in the woods
    Yellow sapling
    Red, gold, brown

  • Fall Colors on the South Side

    Boston ivy in fall colors
    Red against blue
    Maple
    More Boston ivy
    Tree of many colors
    Boston ivy again
    By the sidewalk

  • Gold Against Blue

  • Sweetgum

    Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) in fall colors. The tree is not technically native to our area: it originally comes from the eastern side of the Appalachians. But it has established itself here as part of our ecosystem, and it is a welcome immigrant. No other tree gives us such a spectacular variety of fall colors on the same individual. This young tree was growing by a railroad on the South Side.

  • Fall Colors in Bird Park

    Sassafrass leaves turned red

    Fall colors today in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. Sassafrass (Sassafrass albidum) is especially colorful right now, with some trees turning red and orange shades and others bright yellow.

    Sassafrass leaves turned yellow
    Sassafrass albidum
    Stream valley
    Maple leaf and bracket fungus
    Sassafrass
    Sassafrass