Here is a happy little stream in Mount Lebanon. It is very fashionable these days to take pictures of moving water with a slow shutter, so that the details around it are sharp but the water is blurred. Father Pitt just wanted you to know that he can do that, too, as you see; he normally avoids it because he thinks it is a cliché whose time should have passed about five years ago.
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Babbling Brook
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Storm Clouds
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More Orange Mushrooms
Identified as Mycena leaiana, until someone tells Father Pitt otherwise. They were growing along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Out of the Woods
The evening sun greets us as we come up out of the woods from one of the hillside trails in Grandview Park.
Camera: Olympus E-20n.
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Rustic Bench in Frick Park
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Peony
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Sycamore Bark
The American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) is a splendid tree with a curious habit of shedding its bark in huge chunks. The result on a mature tree is often a very smooth surface mottled all over with decorative patterns. These trees are in the Smithfield East End Cemetery in Squirrel Hill.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Rhododendron Season
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Orange Mushrooms
Old Pa Pitt is not a mushroom expert. He believes these to be Mycena leaiana, but any correspondent is invited to correct (or confirm) his identification. The ones below are a little past their prime, but still decorative.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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It’s Iris Season
