The columns of the Mellon Institute building in Oakland are the largest monolithic columns in the world, each made from one gigantic cylinder of stone. This picture was taken on film a few years ago, but nothing much has changed.
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2112 East Carson Street, South Side
A well-proportioned building little changed since it was put up. You may notice, by the way, that older storefronts always have inset doors. Why is that? you ask. Somehow we have forgotten the reason for this obvious precaution, but our ancestors had much more practical minds than we have. For fire safety, doors should open outward. If they are flush with the sidewalk, however, they can open outward right into the face of a passing pedestrian and break his nose.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
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Barge on the Allegheny
Another moving still picture: a barge heads downstream past the Armstrong Cork Factory toward the Sixteenth Street Bridge.
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Caterpillar
A caterpillar of the Hickory Tussock Moth (Lophocampa caryae) crawls through the leaves.
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Union Church, Robinson Township
Formerly Union Presbyterian Church, this congregation has been here more than two centuries. In the adjacent burying ground are several Revolutionary War veterans, and the hilltop church with the cemetery below is irresistibly picturesque.
Old Pa Pitt, however, could not get a good picture of the church today, because he was there in the afternoon when the sun was shining in the wrong direction. So instead he gives you the next best thing, which is an atmospheric picture. You can always compensate for a picture’s defects by turning it black and white and calling it art.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
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Mushrooms in Schenley Park
To Father Pitt’s untrained eye they look like boletes of some sort. He will not attempt an exact identification, because he is not very well informed in fungal matters.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
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Carnegie Library, South Side Branch
Another branch library by Andrew Carnegie’s favorite architectural firm, Alden & Harlow, who also gave us (as Longfellow, Alden & Harlow) the main Carnegie Institute building in Oakland.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
