Father Pitt

Category: Nature

  • Fallen Tree

    The forest reclaims a fallen tree in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.

  • Garlic Chives

    Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) blooming in a city garden.

  • Roots

    The base of a tree against a sidewalk in Schenley Farms.

  • Sunset

  • Mushrooms on a Log

    Mushrooms growing on a decaying log in the Kane Woods Nature Area, Scott Township.

  • Butterflies

    Old Pa Pitt is not enough of an entomologist to identify these creatures reliably. He is almost certain the first one is a Silvery Checkerspot, but the other one eludes him, and he would be happy for an identification from a better-informed reader.

  • Periwinkles

    Catharanthus roseus in most classification systems, but Vinca rosea in the garden trade.

  • Last Light of the Evening

    Evening light

  • French Marigolds

    French marigold

    Old Pa Pitt uses various digital cameras that are cheap, old, or both; but when the desired effect is to make a foreground object stand out from the blurred background, it helps to have a DSLR. It helps even more to have a DSLR with a supplementary macro lens, which gives us a very shallow depth of field. The camera that took these pictures is an Olympus E-20n, which is old enough to vote and next year will be old enough to drink. But as long as it keeps taking pictures like these, old Pa Pitt will keep it in the camera bag.

  • Magnolia Blossom

    Blooming in late July on the South Side.