A doe browsing in the Allegheny Cemetery, a rural landscape smack in the middle of the city. Deer in the great cemeteries have a pretty soft life, but deer are found in almost every city neighborhood with even a small patch of woods. This picture has been donated to Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, so no permission is needed to use it for any purpose whatsoever.
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) stalks its prey in a pond near Cranberry.
A composition of tree trunks, leaves, and sunlight in the woods in Mount Lebanon.
Storms in the morning made streams unusually vigorous this afternoon.
Wandering through the Allegheny Cemetery this morning, old Pa Pitt happened upon a doe with her three fawns. The deer were wary at first, but Father Pitt persuaded them that he was no threat, and then they happily posed for these pictures.
Storm clouds passing over the city gave us rain and these beautiful views.
Old Pa Pitt does not know whether anyone else refers to this rock outcropping by that name, but to him it is always a lion’s head. It projects from a cliff below the Homewood Trail not far from the Frick Art Museum.
Around the bend we’ll cross one of the famous tufa bridges.
The Butterfly Forest in the Stove Room at Phipps is aflutter with butterflies all summer. Above, a Julia (Dryas iulia); below, a White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae).
