Aesculus × carnea blooming in Oakmont.
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Pink Horse-Chestnut
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. -
Kale Flowers
Kale is a biennial. If you let some kale overwinter, it will give you cheery yellow mustard flowers in the spring, which will produce the seeds for another crop of kale.
Kodak EasyShare Z981. -
First of the Daylilies, Last of the Tulips
Yes, old Pa Pitt did plant tulips right in front of this patch of daylilies just to prove that he has daylilies that bloom in tulip season.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6. The variety has no name, because it came from a batch of unnamed hybrid seedlings. But every year it reliably produces the earliest daylily flowers Father Pitt knows of, and every year he takes its picture, with a tulip in the frame if possible.
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Mushroom on a Log
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6. In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
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Dandelion Seeds
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Lily of the Valley
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Sun Through Japanese Maple
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Fiddleheads
Fiddleheads of Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) unrolling along the Trillium Trail, Fox Chapel.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6. -
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. With Calvary Methodist Church, Allegheny West, in the foreground.
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Backlit Tulips
Because there’s no such thing as too many tulips.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.
