It had been raining all day, but in the evening there was enough of a lull for old Pa Pitt to get out and take these pictures. The daylilies are all unnamed varieties from a planting of mixed hybrid seedlings.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS.
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Daylilies After the Rain
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Purple Coneflower
This American native is one of our most beloved garden flowers. It blooms most of the summer, and it tolerates a wide variety of conditions. Butterflies love it, too. You can often find it growing wild around Pittsburgh, but it is currently one of the most fashionable garden flowers. This is a semi-wild specimen: it was a volunteer seedling whose parents were deliberately planted nearby.
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Drumstick Allium
Drumstick Alliums (Allium sphaerocephalon) are more and more popular, but still a bit odd-looking. These grew in Beechview, where they were in full bloom at the beginning of July.
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The Many Colors of the Sweetgum
No tree celebrates fall more enthusiastically than Liquidambar styraciflua, the North American sweetgum. Pittsburgh is a little north of its native range, but it has been adopted everywhere as a favorite urban planting. In the fall, its leaves turn every color of which autumn leaves are capable, all on the same tree—from bright yellow to the deepest eggplant purple.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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November in the Woods
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Spooky Old Tree in Lebanon Church Cemetery
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Golden Forest
In these pictures, once again, Father Pitt challenged himself to take pictures that could go directly from the camera to the public without any cropping or other adjustments.
Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
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Geese
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More Fall Colors
These were all taken directly from the 99¢ camera, without passing through any image editor, after a walk through the woods.
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Mushrooms in a Lawn
