Happy Birthday, Mom
Kelsey and I are the luckiest kids alive to have you and dad.
I've decided to make a website that we can look at
just in case we ever miss pittsburgh!
can you see the tags following the waterline on the warehouse?
the water was that high on our 19th birthday.
i've been looking down these streets for 18 years
during winter rush hours.
we're moving to dallas this summer.
But we still have these pictures.
and pittsburgh will always be there.
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and this alley
this corner
these steps
and this intersection.
we've seen so many times!
no matter where you are in pittsburgh
you can always count on being able to see somewhere else off in distance.
it's because of all the bridges and hills.
like it or not.
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all these floating, static neighborhoods
each a world within itself
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entirely new buildings are built while i'm away from the city.
like a starbuck's on craig street.
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our friends will still be here.
movies on flagstaff hill will still be there.
it'll still rain too much!
see those steps? you can climb all the way up to the top.
the carnegie museum is beautiful.
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skylines blink in and out.
i see the city through other peoples' windshields.
most of these pictures were taken from a moving car.
that's jack wilson, my favorite snaggle-tooth pirate.
that building is the cathedral of learning.
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I really like the Hillman Library.
5th avenue during rush hour.
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we took art classes every day after school here
the Center for the Arts is attached to frick park.
at the frick house you can get real tea.
michael chabon got it right in the mysteries of pittsburgh:
this is what he calls the cloud factory.
the cloud factory is right behind the carnegie library.
we went on yearly field trips to draw the museum christmas trees.
you can see people's footsteps through the carnegie's ceiling.
my family!
kelsey painted our bathroom yellow a few years ago.
carving around downtown.
i still don't know what this factory does.
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go left to bloomfield, go right to shadyside.
or go left to east liberty and right to squirrel hill.
kelsey at her best.
go left to my house, go right to fox chapel and SSA.
middleroad, to my house on top of the hill.
when we first moved here all those houses were just piles of dirt.
we like to revisit our old school under the cover of night when we're home.
even if we miss pittsburgh when we move,
like a dream upon waking,
we'll still have our memories, and these pictures!