I'M JUST BACK FROM PITTSBURGHwhere Molly and I went to have a look around. And man, I gotta tell ya, what a sweet city. Even on a cloudy day. On a sunny day, Pittsburgh steps up to the plate as one of the most beautiful cities in the world when viewed from across the Monongahela River from atop the neighborhood of Mt. Washington -- imagine the hills of Manayunk on the opposite shore of the Schuylkill directly across from Center City.

Pittsburgh is a river city surrounded by mountains, which means that it is a city of tunnels and bridges. The bridges, incidentally, are painted yellow and black, the team colors of the Pirates and Steelers. That's the 16th Street Bridge across the Allegheny River from the Strip to the North shore below Troy Hill. I enhanced the photo to bring out the yellow.