Corning NY November 5, 2013

Beyond Baskets -- gift shop and cafe -- is now The Market Street Source. Or, The Source, for short!

Tobacco plant blooms at Brown's Cigar Store.

Remember to click on each photo to see an enlarged, detailed version.



Aniello's Pizzeria.

Soulshine Studio. Owner's mother covered a beautiful wicker chair and footstool from England.

More alley art.

Have you "Liked" Corning NY Step By Step on Facebook yet? Lots of extra photos being posted there--including an album on the Wineglass Marathon, the High School renovation and enlargement, and the Patterson Bridge reconstruction project. Like the page and it'll be added to your FB News Feed so you'll know when I've posted a new blog entry.

In the past, I've always given these posts a title. Truth is, it's often a frustrating task because the photos within an entry vary so much. So, from now on, unless I'm covering a very specific topic, no titles! Hmmm, have I said this before?

Anyways, welcome to Corning, New York, USA...

Going up the hill on Corning's south side.

A treehouse. Really!

The YMCA.

Southeast Steuben County Library.

First time ever, I spotted this coming across the Bridge St bridge on September 21.

Lowell Taylor Entertainment. I think that's an Elmira NY phone number.

Walking the dike by the Chemung River on the north side. South side (west end) hill in the background.

Market Street.

More Market Street.

Moving east to west.

Homemade chocolate at Beyond Baskets.

Pulteney Street (Route 415). A grayish day after it rained all night.

Did you remember to click on the photos to see an enlarged version?

The Farmers' Market

Walking home from an early morning appointment, I saw the Farmers’ Market set up in Riverfront Centennial Park. Although this outside market opened several weeks ago, it was my first stop there this year.

Corning is a small community -- population under 12,000 -- so the Farmers’ Market is small, yet colorful, fun and full of fresh foods and handcrafted items.



What first catches my eye every year are the flowers. Yep, the flower lady is back again with her beautiful bouquets of homegrown flowers. Check out Market Street on Thursdays during the summer and fall for the many colorful bouquets being carried to cars and offices.



In May I wrote about a new store on Market Street -- AnnaMarri Soy Candles -- The AnnaMarri booth at the Farmers’ Market featured not only their handmade soy candles but also fabric covered notebooks and beautiful fabric bags by Karen, which can also be found in the store.





Look for Elizabeth Whitehouse each week and her eclectic collection of goodies, including her miniature books (not pictured).




The honey, wax figures and candles pictured here are all produced locally...



Carrot tops? A beet leaf? I wonder what else...



Gorgeous basil, beets, radishes, lettuces and much more -- all grown in this area...












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Thanks to this couple from Illinois for allowing me to photograph them. They are in the area to visit the Corning Museum of Glass.




Laura Dickerman of Beyond Baskets' Palate Cafe and Juice Bar "where you ART what you eat"...


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ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND ANOTHER CONTEST

August 28, 2010... that’s when this blog began. So, here we are, one year and fifty-three blog entries later!


Thanks to several Market Street merchants, we're going to have another Identify-The-Photo Contest!

Be the first to reply telling WHAT is in the photo above and WHERE it is located (please be specific).


Congratulations to Elizabeth Zambrano who correctly guessed that our mystery building is next door to the West William Street car wash (which is next door to Hokey Pokey)!


Today's gift certificates have been provided by Beyond Baskets and Pip’s Boutique.


CLICK ON THE PHOTO ABOVE TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION.


There are two ways to enter...

1) at the end of this blog, you can enter your guess in the Comments. That’s the BLOG COMMENT SECTION.

2) Tomorrow morning I will post the blog entry containing the contest photos on our Facebook page. “Like” the Facebook page, find the post where I mention the contest and enter your guess as a comment under that post.

The contest will end two weeks after I post the photo on my blog. If there is no winner, the prizes go back in the pool and we’ll try again later with another photo.

Each reader will be eligible to win one contest per calendar year.

Out of town residents, out of state residents and out of country residents... all are invited to enter. However, family and employees of the merchants supplying the gift certificates are not. Same goes for my family!

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Happy anniversary! Glad to have you with us. Hope you’ll go to the Comment section below and tell us what you like, or not, about this blog. And let us know what you’d like to see more of.

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What's in an alley?

Take a walk down Market Street the next time you are in Corning, NY.





Park behind the businesses, walk through them and out to Market Street.




Or, like me, just stroll on down the alleys and see what there is to see out back.


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STAY TUNED to Corning NY Step by Step for upcoming contests with prizes from Beyond Baskets, Mending Your Ways, Simple Style and Pip's Boutique.

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Cool off...



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