Carnegie Museum of Art

This is the Carnegie Museum of Art, part of the Carnegie Museum, one of Andrew Carnegie's wonderful gifts to the city of Pittsburgh. Cam works here as the curator of modern art. It is here, in her office, that she first falls through the time tube while trying to do research to inject some much-needed intrigue into her biography of the painter, Anthony Van Dyck. I think she gets all the intrigue she can handle.

Carnegie stairs

Here are the steps just inside the entrance that take a visitor up to the galleries. These are the steps Cam is running down near the start of the book. The steps are at least twice as deep as regular steps, which means you take two steps on each stair, which makes running down or up them very awkward.

One of Lely's portraits

What qualities must a painter possess to get his subject to pose like this? That's the question I asked myself, and the one I had Cam ask herself.

Painted Ladies

The cover of the exhibit catalog showing the Peter Lely portrait with which Cam and Jeanne are entranced. I can see why. Like Cam doing her Lely research, I dropped a bundle on this book. I had to buy it at abe.com since it's out of print.

Lely self-portrait

This is a self-portrait of Peter Lely. He didn't paint very many self-portraits. In the book, Cam first grows interested in Peter when she sees this self-portrait. I'm not a big fan of mustaches, so I used my authorial power and ignored that part, but I love the rest of it. He really does look like a man who's lived through some unhappiness. I hope Peter enjoys the journey I've taken him on. I'd like to think it's one he would have picked for himself.

Cyclops Building, Mt. Lebanon

This is the building Cam lives in in Mt. Lebanon. It used to be called the Cyclops Building and many of the floors served as the headquarters to Cyclops Steel Corp. Now it is the more anonymous "650 Washington Road," a significant decline if you ask me. It's the tallest building in Mt. Lebanon counting floors--I'm sure many church spires are taller--and it always struck me as odd that someone would build such a relatively tall building in a suburb. It has a magnificent view of the South Hills, which is why I put Cam in a loft at the top, though it really isn't a residential building at all. I would love to see a restaurant or bar at the top so that everyone could enjoy the view. When I was a kid my orthodontist was on the second floor of this building.

I took the picture from the top of the Mt. Lebanon parking garage. In the book, Cam and Jacket are standing on the top of garage when Jacket asks her to marry him.

Aldo Coffee, Mt. Lebanon

This is Aldo Coffee in Mt. Lebanon. It is directly across the street from the Cyclops Building. Once he's smitten with Cam, poor Peter plants himself here every day to watch her come home from work. And while he loves the coffee, I think he ultimately sets himself up for more pain than happiness there, for he ends up seeing Jacket greet Cam, hug her and lead her upstairs. Rough for a hero who's falling in love again for the first time in over 300 years...