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  • A Ride on the Brown Line

    Although the Brown Line through Allentown is no longer in regular service, the Port Authority keeps it active for use as a detour when the Transit Tunnel under Mount Washington is closed. For several weeks in August of 2019, the tunnel was under construction, and all Red Line and Blue Line cars had to go over the Brown Line route. This is a simple record of what you see out the right-hand window on a car inbound from South Hills Junction to Steel Plaza. We go up Warrington Avenue and down Arlington Avenue, over the Panhandle Bridge, and into the subway.

    If you are not a trolley geek, this may possibly be the dullest video you have ever encountered. If you are a trolley geek, you are already panting and drooling, so go to the Wikimedia Commons hosting page..

    December 6, 2020
  • Grandview Avenue, Duquesne Heights

    Duquesne Heights is the western section of Mount Washington, the part that includes the expensive restaurants overlooking the skyline and the luxury apartment towers. Here we see Grandview Pointe in the foreground, with its glass-walled elevator shaft leading up to the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto, and the Trimont in the distance.

    December 5, 2020
  • Terra Cotta on the Thompson’s Building

    Two ornaments from the terra-cotta façade of the old Thompson’s Restaurant building on Market Street just off the Diamond.

    December 5, 2020
  • The Skyline on a Grey December Day

    December 4, 2020
  • St. Boniface Church

    St. Boniface Church

    An isolated survivor of the once-populous East Street Valley, this splendid church (designed by A. F. Link and completed in 1926) was spared by a slight rerouting of the Parkway North. Since the latest reorganization in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, this is now part of Christ Our Savior parish.

    The picture above is fairly large if you click on it; it’s a composite of eight separate photographs.


    Map

    December 3, 2020
  • Palm Leaves

    Patterns of leaves and glass in the Palm House at Phipps Conservatory.

    December 2, 2020
  • Snow Is Falling

    December 1, 2020
  • Snow on Ivy

    December 1, 2020
  • Japanese Barberry in Fall Color

    Berberis thunbergii, fall color

    Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) may be a noxious invasive, but it came here because it was beautiful, and no one can take that away from it.

    November 30, 2020
  • Forsythia at the End of November

    Sometimes Forsythia gets a little confused. A few days of warm weather are sufficient to make the plant think it’s time to bloom.

    November 29, 2020
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