Father Pitt

Tag: Winter

  • Mission Hills in the Snow

    Parkway Drive

    Mission Hills in Mount Lebanon was laid out in 1921 as an ideally picturesque automobile suburb. The lots were sold off individually, so that each buyer hired his own architect and builder. The result is a delightful variety of styles that all fit comfortably together. We’ll take a look at a couple of those houses individually later, but right now here is a big album of Mission Hills houses in the snow.

    343 Parkway Drive

    To keep from weighing down the front page, we’ll put the rest of the pictures behind a “read more” link.

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  • A Snowy Day in Beechview

    Dagmar Avenue in the snow

    Old Pa Pitt would like to tell you that he climbed a tree in the howling wind just to get these pictures for you, but he would be pulling your leg. They were taken from the walkway of the Fallowfield streetcar viaduct.

    Walkway on the Fallowfield viaduct
    Alton Street

    If architecture is frozen music, then utility cables are the surface noise on a worn shellac record.

  • Sunset Through the Branches

    Sunset

  • Winter Light Garden at Phipps Conservatory

    Phipps Conservatory illuminated

    This year’s Winter Flower Show and Light Garden ends tomorrow to make way for the annual Orchid and Bonsai Show. The conservatory is open late for the light show, which has become one of Pittsburgh’s chief holiday attractions.

    Joy
    Globes and pointy things
    Abstract tree
    Illuminated tree
    Orange and green
    Light arcade
    Overlooking the light garden
    Broderie
    Sunken Garden
    Victoria Room
    East Room
    Serpentine Room
    View from the Japanese Courtyard Garden

  • Ironweed Seeds

    Seeds of Tall Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea)

    Seeds of Tall Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea), presented to you here because old Pa Pitt was trying out a camera he just bought in a junk shop for $8.

  • Sunset

    Sunset through winter tree

  • Duquesne Incline

    Seen from across the Ohio.

  • Ice Cascade in Banksville

    Icicles

    Every year this cliff face in Banksville grows a beautiful cascade of icicles, and old Pa Pitt has taken pictures of it more than once. Here it is again, and no excuse is necessary.

    Ice cascade

  • Moss

    Moss on a log

  • Tracks in the Snow

    Tracks in the snow

    A rookie hunter might follow these tracks expecting to find a freight train; but a seasoned tracker would notice that they are Pennsylvania broad gauge, and therefore must lead to a trolley eventually.