




A man who has the geese for his friends fears no enemy.


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November is the month that gives us an excuse to use the word “russet” over and over.




The receiving vault (now the Columbarium), built in 1878, was designed by Bailey & Anglin, Allegheny architects who designed some important projects in Allegheny and the rest of southwestern Pennsylvania.


One corner of West Park is cut off from the rest by an iron fence. It’s a triumph of landscaping: until you get close to the fence, you can’t see that the reason for the fence is a broad railroad cut, four tracks wide, that slices right across the park. It could have ruined the whole effect of this urban paradise, but instead artistic landscaping has made it picturesque—especially in November, when the long rows of ginkgo trees are shedding their golden leaves.







Some views from two different divisions of the Union Dale Cemetery.









Father Pitt usually thinks of the photograph as the raw material for a picture, meaning that the photograph will go through a good bit of adjustment before he publishes it. But every once in a while, he challenges himself to publish pictures directly from the camera. On this expedition, he also focused all the pictures manually, just to see how good the Fujifilm FinePix HS10 was at manual focusing. Pretty good.









