A few more shots from the early-May SF to Pittsburgh run, with the city itself above showing more visibly where the two rivers merge to create the Ohio River (which is the third of the “three rivers”), and below where it’s mostly the Ohio, plus some midwestern and great plains aerial views.
Two more from Pittsburgh: Below, City of Asylum‘s “Burma House” (do open the link and read about this wonderful organization of which I first learned only during this walk). Above, Randyland which is a personal museum qua expression of exuberance in the same neighborhood. 🙂 Apologies that I can’t offer photos with better lighting – it was a drizzly, gray morning but the only morning we had for this exploration.
Brunot Island is the first island in the Ohio River once it emerges from the confluence of the Allegheny (left, here) & Monogahela (right) Rivers at “The Point” in Pittsburgh, close the Three Rivers Stadium. No, it’s not three completely distinct rivers, but two joining to make the mighty Ohio, which becomes the third.
This was the most curious and human-sociable of perhaps a dozen flamingoes at the aforementioned National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA. He seemed very clearly to want to interact with the humans more than the other flamingoes, which a staff member said came from his having been orphaned and raised by humans. This allowed me to notice the detailed markings flamingoes have on their beaks and heads, which I’d never been close enough to see before! (If you click on the individual photos, you’ll see full-size versions without the head cut off.) Below, several of the other interesting birds we saw that morning.
The irises were abloom everywhere I went on that US visit in April and early May. This one was catching raindrops outside the National Aviary in Pittsburgh on May 4th :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 