Pittsburgh Trip, New Year's 2007

I went up to Pittsburgh to visit my friend Laura, and had a good time while I was there. It was a bit chilly, but only after dark. This wasn't my first trip up to visit with Laura -- but it was probably the first time I remember to use my camera! This trip took place in late December of 2006 and early January of 2007.


Laura's such a sweety. And she's almost as tall as me, too!.


No memory of what she's looking at. Nope. None.


The Carnegie Melon Institute in Pittsburgh; I shot the image because of the architecture.


This is a replica of an actual sarcophagus on display at the Carnegie Museum; Laura stands next to it for an idea of scale. Note the detail on the corners and along the sides.


This is information from the ancient city of Ur, detailing excavations.


Pittsburgh just after the sun has set, and the full moon has risen. Far off to the right is Pittsburgh University.


Laura, for scale, next to an architectural archway sample in the Carnegie Museum.


A Celtic-era column.


Bronze-aged objects in a case at the Carnegie Museum -- a row of instruments in the foreground, and even a brazier on the right.


To give you a perspective of this mastodon's skull, you have to realize that the lower jaw pictured is as tall as a human skull. Coupled with a huge hole in the front of the mastodon's skull (where it's trunk would have been attached), one can get a grasp for the mythical origins of the cyclops.


This is a sperm whale's lower jaw bones, leaning up against a vertical wall in the Carnegie Museum. Each of those teeth is as big as both of my hands put together, palm to palm and finger to finger.


Now this is an aquarium a kid can appreciate.


The building above is the main administrative center for Pitt(sburgh University), known as the Cathedral of Learning.


This is the true cathedral of Pittsburgh University, a very beautiful structure, inside and out -- caught in the shadow of the Cathedral of Learning.


A panoramic I threw together from a couple of pictures. On the left is Pirate Stadium and the Steelers' stadium. Pittsburgh has sometimes been called the American Venice -- it has more bridges than Venice, Italy.


Another shot of downtown Pittsburgh; you can just see the moon trying to peek out from behind the silver building on the right.


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