Cathy Schlott, manager of animal training, works with a Lanner Falcon during a preview of the National Aviary’s show “Talons!”

Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette

For more pictures by Post-Gazette photographers, visit our< a href=”http://old.post-gazette.com/photooftheday/”>Photos of the Day page.

Malkin’s parents cheer on the Penguins… sort of.

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby fights through two Islanders to score a goal in a Game 5 matchup in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in Pittsburgh Thursday night.

—Matt Freed/Post-Gazette

Slideshow: Pens, Vokoun shut out Islanders

Doing the Mothers’ Day dance

Odin Silak, 4, of Gibsonia hams it up for Erica Prise of the Picture People,  during a complimentary Mother’s Day portrait shoot this week at Children’s Hospital in Lawrenceville.

Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette

Cheering on the Pittsburgh marathon runners

A woman shows her support for the Pittsburgh Marathon runners as they pass by in Shadyside.

— Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette

Check out the Post-Gazette’s Pittsburgh Marathon Tumblr blog here:

http://pittsburghmarathon.tumblr.com/

Pittsburgh Marathon success declared over unique challenges

Cheering for the Penguins

Remy Zadach , of Jefferson Hills  wears her Penguins-themed eyewear at the “Annihilate the Islanders Rally” in the courtyard of the Allegheny County Courthouse on May 1.

Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette

Penguins beat Islanders 5-0  in Game 1

Lighting a candle for Palm Sunday

A parishioner lights a candle upon arriving for Palm Sunday services at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.

Bob Donaldson / Post-Gazette

For more pictures by Post-Gazette photographers, visit the Photos of the Day page: http://old.post-gazette.com/photooftheday

Spring comes to Dormont

 A view of the changing spring landscape from  Broadway Avenue looking northwest along LaSalle Avenue in Dormont .

—Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette

For more pictures by Post-Gazette photographers, check out the Photos of the Day page: http://old.post-gazette.com/photooftheday/

Releasing the firkins at Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week

Volunteer Jenny Fuga, of Westview, sports a beer-inspired manicure Saturday during the Release the Firkins Real Ale Fest at Highmark Stadium.  The event offered about 40 “real ales,” brews that are cask-conditioned in small kegs called firkins, and poured by gravity — not with C02 pressure for carbonation.

—Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette

More from the PG Food section at PG Plate: http://www.pgplate.com

Dribbling on the Clemente Bridge

Harlem Globetrotters Slick Willie Shaw (left) and T-Time Brawner demonstrate their skills before dribbling across the Roberto Clemente bridge Thursday.  The bridge arrival is part of “Globetrotter Week” in Pittsburgh, which includes multiple anti-bullying school assemblies and culminates with a game at CONSOL Energy Center Sunday.

Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette

Robin at the ready… 

Folllowing a night of storms, this robin on Beacon Street in Squirrel Hill was out ready to face another day.

—Larry Roberts/Post-Gazette   

For more pictures by Post-Gazette photographers visit our Photos of the Day page: http://old.post-gazette.com/photooftheday/

Testing the fountain at Point State Park

A welcome harbinger of warmer weather: The fountain at Pittsburgh’s Point State park was on today.

Larry Roberts/Post-Gazette  

Surrounded by daffodils  

Juliet Taylor,19, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, studies English in Schenley Plaza in Oakland.

-Bill Wade/ Post-Gazette

16th Street Bridge steel view

The steelwork of the 16th Street bridge breaks up the view of the smokestacks at the former H. J. Heinz plant and the Troy Hill and Spring Garden neighborhoods.

Kurt Weber/Post-Gazette

Painted feet = penguin artwork

Educator Jamie Travitz guides Kaden, an African penguin from the National Aviary, across a sheet of paper after having dipped his feet in paint to create an original work of art as patients and families of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC watched.

—Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette