Photos

In Focus: The Great Blue Heron

The love affair starts with a drive along Big Sewickley Creek Road. It winds along the creek, hopping from Allegheny County to Beaver County and back. Just up the short hill past the Hanson Asphalt Plant you cast your eyes to the right and there it is. Giant blue-gray birds, alien to a Pittsburgh youth of the ’50s and ’60s, rebuild some three dozen stick nests atop tall sycamore trees. Great blue herons have returned for another nesting season, and to delight me and my camera. View The Gallery >

And the Band Plays On

Since 2012 retired music teacher, Paulette Gulakowski (cq) has been leading the New Horizons Band of Greater Pittsburgh, a community band for adult beginners and refreshers at the Turtle Creek Municipal Building. View The Gallery >