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Fawcett Church, Cecil Township

The congregation began as a house meeting in 1793 and was officially founded in 1812. The current church, which replaced an earlier log church, was built in 1843 and restored after a fire in 1944. Families of early settlers are buried in the churchyard.

Father Pitt has never run across “Nazarene” as a male given name before. The stonecutter made some very elegant letters, but “May the 1th” was as wrong in 1839 as it is today.

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September 9, 2014
H. J. Heinz Factory

This photograph from Frank Curto Park, across the Allegheny, reminded Father Pitt of the old sepia gravure factory prints of a hundred years ago. So why not offer it in sepia tones? Much of the old Heinz complex is now loft apartments, but the buildings are remarkably intact, and on the National Register of Historic Places.

September 8, 2014
Sulphur Shelf Fungus

Bright orange mushrooms, probably a species of Laetiporus (mushroom lovers are invited to correct this identification), growing on a log in Frick Park. Behind them, Orange Touch-Me-Nots (Impatiens capensis) are blooming in almost exactly the same shade of orange.

September 5, 2014
The Bluff

Mercy Hospital and part of Duquesne University seen from across the Monongahela.

September 3, 2014
Heinz Field

Heinz Field seen from Mount Washington on a sunny morning.

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September 1, 2014
The Tower at PNC Plaza, August, 2014

The skeleton is in place and the sides are filling in.

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August 29, 2014
Oakland from Across the Monongahela

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Central Oakland seen in the last rays of evening sun.

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August 27, 2014
City Deer

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.

August 24, 2014
St. Basil Catholic Church, Carrick

In the light of the setting sun, St. Basil’s presides benevolently over part of Carrick, a neighborhood of steep and crowded hills.

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August 18, 2014
Great Blue Heron

A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) stalks its prey in a pond near Cranberry.

August 16, 2014