We had a nice brunch with friends on Sunday. Riding back toward Bloomfield with Maya and Ryder, I saw this interesting mural on an interesting building. It a much nicer experience than that corner would have been without the scenes painted on the plywood.
Art All Night was this past weekend. I'm finally getting around to posting a few pictures. The event is an annual art show where anybody can bring and show a single piece. It's held in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and is generally in a space that has been recently renovated and is hoping for some exposure.
After spending the day at Moraine State Park, we drove to Butler for dinner. The item at the left in the picture was billed as a beef chile relleno. I gave it a go because we've been confronted by the addition of beef to all chile rellenos we've had since moving to Pittsburgh. Even by local standars, this one doesn't come close. I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be breaded and fried. Bethany and I have been eating them for years, but mostly when we lived in Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon. Our experience is that they are only filled with cheese, not beef. The mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh we frequent stuffs them with beef. They do have a cheese-filled relleno, but they call it chile poblano. In any case, it matches up with our experience out west. However, the wikipedia page for chile relleno does mention a very different meat content, but sort of says the cheese versions are traditional.
I found some more pictures of signs written by people confused by cents and dollars and decimal placement.
The building renovation for the new Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is progressing in Garfield/Bloomfield. I don't know much about it beyond the website and admiring the exterior work, but they have an interesting series of classes lined up for the summer. Their goal is to make art and sustainability accessible to the diverse community that lives in Garfield, Bloomfield, Friendship, and greater Pittsburgh.
During our run at Frick Park, Guthrie and I stopped at 'Hot Dog Dam' for some wading. It's one of his favorite places. The second photo is looking down on the impounded area from the bridge on Forbes Ave.
I'm a little behind on this outing, but Guthrie and I enjoyed a good 4-mile run through Frick Park on Saturday. On one trail was a cat. When we jogged around the corner, it stopped in the middle of the trail and proceeded to swell to about twice its normal size. Once it saw Guthrie defer to it, its fur relaxed, and it came over to me to be pet.
Saturday, I stopped by the office with Guthrie to get some things with the car. There's an entrance ramp adjacent to the building for the busway with a meadowy hill that Guthrie loves to run around on. This day, there was a groundhog (aka woodchuck) at the top of the hill peering down at him. He/she is on the upside of the brown brush patch by the wall at the top. Guthrie, keen of eye and nose, never noticed...
We had six bike commuters today! The seventh bike has been abandoned since the weather got wet and cold in the fall. The offending person says she'll get the bike home and start riding again soon. We're going to need to build another rack to accommodate the few more riders we'll likely pick up when the weather actually gets nice. This one is Kevin's handwork.
Friday, I went with some friends to the first night of the 2-day traveling Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It was a nice collection of films this year, but much less of the adrenaline pumping craziness of years past. I love that type of thing, as I usually find it very inspiring, even if it's over the top nuts.
I forgot to post this from a few weeks ago. Green Gears isn't the first pedicab company I've seen in the city. I chatted for a while with a guy near Penn Brewery about his almost four years ago. I haven't seen him since. I hope they make it. I think the timing is good, as the city seems more accepting of something like this than it was in the past.
I love the temporal nature of the interaction of glass and light. I work with stained glass at times and am very fond of how it changes character with the time of day or night and with artificial light sources. Religious themes aside, churches frequently have some very amazing craftsmanship in their architecture, and many have wonderful glass art. This is the church at the catholic grade school in Bloomfield. Maybe it's just a chapel, as there is a catholic cathedral down the street. I haven't been in either yet. This style is very similar to that of the church I attended with my family growing up. The architecture is also similar, so they were likely built around the same time. I'll check the dates sometime and also post some pictures of the glass back in my hometown when I make it back there.
Dave from work and I ride the same route to work (for the most part). We were both late coming in this morning. This is a shot over my shoulder of Dave as we rode down the hill in the bike lane on Liberty Blvd. Note the conscientious driver giving us a nice wide berth. I appreciate the sentiment.
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