Fall colors today in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. Sassafrass (Sassafrass albidum) is especially colorful right now, with some trees turning red and orange shades and others bright yellow.
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Fall Colors in Bird Park
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Lake Elizabeth
The lake in West Park on the North Side, from a negative taken in 1999.
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Point Fountain and Heinz Field
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The Bandstand at West End Park
Thomas Scott designed this elegant Arts-and-Crafts bandstand for West End Park, and it must have been a fine thing to sit out on the grass and hear a thumpy brass band on a lazy summer evening. It has probably been many years since a brass band played here, but the bandstand itself has been restored and is kept in excellent shape. Here we have similar pictures from two cameras with wildly different ideas of color balance.
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Mellon Park Gatehouse
With a redbud tree.
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Apple Blossoms in Mellon Park
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Bowl of Tulips
In Mellon Park.
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The Walled Garden at Mellon Park
With dancers practicing in the distance. Did old Pa Pitt wait until they were in the most comical possible positions to push the shutter button? Maybe.
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Riverview Park Visitor Center
A modest stone building from the 1940s that successfully creates the impression of having grown up out of the native rock by natural processes.
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Walkway to the West End Overlook
This winding trellised walkway works well both as a pleasant place to be in its own right and to build anticipation for the view to come.
