TSPGH: Frick Environmental Center & Freedom Garden

During summer Dear Husband and I would normally have participated in a wide variety of fun activities but due to COVID have been largely confined [ha!] to the great outdoors. In particular, we have enjoyed walks in our neighborhood and through Frick Park. Here you can see the Environmental Center, which opened in 2017 as an award-winning Platinum-LEED "Living Building." It produces all its own electricity from solar panels, and the extra is donated to the main grid. It uses low-electricity bulbs that turn down when no one is in the room (like now). It collects rain water and recycles what it uses. It also uses ground heat during the winter. Although the Environmental Center is closed, the From Freedom to Slavery Garden is open. That's so Pittsburgh.

Looking down into the gully behind the Environmental Center. 

Looking up at the Environmental Center from the gully behind it. When we walked with J.H., we saw 5 chipmunks, 6 deer, a couple of bunnies, and a bunch of birds. When D.H. and I walked one Sunday morning, we saw a mother deer, a teenaged deer, and two little white-tailed twin fawns! Also a blonde squirrel and a toad that jumped when I walked by it.

Shady bench seat deep in Frick Park, and view from the top of the hill.

Editor's Note:  There are more pictures of Frick Park here; here's fun at Frick Mansion; and other fun we have had out and about in Pittsburgh.