Friday the 13th ~ December 2013

Mixing and matching again. Still on vacation and brought this collection of photos with me to post. Several from one year ago. The rest from October to December of this year. I love the colors of the fall leaves. They seemed to me to have changed so fast this year.

A dog walking its owner along the dike. Southside hill in the background.

Park at the end of Hillvue Drive. I wonder how many people know it’s there.

Fall leaves in the park.

Can never have too many pictures of Little Joe and the Bridge Street bridge.

Renovations started on Bridge Street buildings in late October. Can’t wait to see what changes have be made by the time I return.

Walking through Riverfront Park, just off Centerway Square.

Last afternoon sky over Corning NY.

I hear it’s quite cold in Corning right now. Still, I’m looking forward to being home (even if it is 10-15 degrees warmer here in Maryland!).




Have you "Liked" Corning NY Step By Step on Facebook yet? Lots of extra photos being posted there. Just recently I added an album of photos for the Benjamin Patterson Inn. Like the page and it will be added to your FB News Feed so you'll know when I've posted a new blog entry.


******


You are also invited to visit my other blog, Step By Step In The Kitchen ~ all about food, of course.

Corning NY December 2, 2013

Usually when I'm on vacation, I post photos of Maryland and Washington D.C. Which is where I vacation. Visiting family.

This time, however, I brought Corning photos with me on a flash drive. Time to use up miscellaneous pictures. All taken this year.

October 19... After deleting 7-8 similar pics, I couldn't decide between this one and the one above. So, you get both.

October 28... Taking photos from a hillside above the Patterson Bridge. Along came a man and his dog. Sweet dog once it calmed down and stopped trying to jump on me.

Again, I couldn't make a decision.

November 14... Bridge Street in the early evening. Traffic is heavy (for Corning) while the Patterson Bridge is closed (as in 'not there') and vehicles are detoured via Pulteney and Bridge Streets.

November 22... Misty morning. Corning Headquarters. Little Joe Tower. Towers on a Southside Hill in the background.

November 26... Taken from the second floor at Guthrie Clinic. YMCA across the street. Little Joe Tower in the background.

(Click on any photo for an enlarged version)


November 28... Sage in my garden. I pick and use all winter.

November 28...
Starlings, I think. They swoop from tree to tree in our neighborhood. A few days before leaving on vacation, I heard a loud sound go by my living room window several times. Looked outside and they were on the ground pecking and eating whatever it is they peck and eat. Every ten seconds or so, they'd swoop up into the sky, circle around and then come back down. Fascinating to watch.

Have you "Liked" Corning NY Step By Step on Facebook yet? Lots of extra photos being posted there. Just recently I added an album of photos for the Benjamin Patterson Inn. Like the page and it will be added to your FB News Feed so you'll know when I've posted a new blog entry.


******


You are also invited to visit my other blog, Step By Step In The Kitchen ~ all about food, of course.

365-Degrees

A foggy morning greeted me on my walk to Guthrie Clinic for a 9:15 AM appointment. Exiting Guthrie and heading back west at just before 10 AM, some fog still remained, as seen in the photo above. On the right, you get a glimpse of CMOG--the Corning Museum of Glass--and on the left is the Corning YMCA. The river is just to the left (south) of the Y and I decided to walk along the dike.

What you see from this view is two bridges. The walking bridge is closest to me and just behind it is another bridge for vehicles. In the right upper corner of the pictures is part of Corning Inc. headquarters.

More of Corning Inc. headquarters can be seen on the left across the river, then Little Joe Tower.

Corning's Southside hill and the Bridge Street bridge.

Turning myself more to the right, I catch the edge of a parking lot next to the Corning Y.

On the right, in the front is a corner of the Corning YMCA and behind it a tennis court. Across the street and further back in the photo is CMOG. The tall building in the background is also part of Corning Inc. and faces Pulteney Street.

More of the YMCA...

Here we are back to Centerway Bridge.

I turned completely around -- no, I didn't. I just switched settings on the camera, so it would show me and the rest of the dike behind me.

Moving alongside the Chemung River, I'm getting closer to the Bridge Street bridge.

I've made it to the bridge and am giving you a long shot of the Patterson Bridge. See it in the distance (below the shadow on the hillside). Major renovations going on and as you can see, several spans of the bridge are missing.

This would probably be a good time to remind you to click on any photo to enlarge it and get a more detailed view of the scenery.

That was yesterday and the leaf pile is today. Corning City Public Works Department has been cleaning up their parks. The leaves are coming down fast!

Just past the Bridge Street bridge and you can see the Southside hill again. In the center of this picture and just a bit to the left is a huge (and still growing) pile of concrete debris from the bridge being renovated.

A bright sunny morning and a good time to walk on down the river to get a better view of the Patterson Bridge. This part of the dike has a sidewalk.

CORNING NY STEP BY STEP is now on Facebook. If you’re on Facebook, “Like” CNYSBS and you’ll see on your News Feed when I post a new entry to the blog, plus there will be extra photos of people, places and things of Corning, New York that didn’t make it into the blog itself.

This past Sunday was the WINEGLASS MARATHON from Bath to Corning. Several thousand participants and you can see lots of photos I took if you go to CNYSBS's Facebook page.

Riding the Northside-Southside Bus

The morning started off with a quick downpour and then settled in to “hot and humid”. I walked to Wegmans and boarded the bus when it came back round to start the Southside route.

I left the bus all the way across town so I could get a look at the new Park Avenue location for Corning’s Salvation Army Thrift Shop (aka Salvo). While waiting for the bus’ return, I also perused the goods in the Dollar General store, then sauntered over to the nearby Peaches’n’Cream for a child-sized dish of chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Mmmm, yum!

Walking in the heat didn’t appeal to me, especially when carrying an umbrella (just in case!), a small bag of purchases from Dollar General, my pocketbook and the dish of ice cream.

Oh no, the seats outside the ice cream store were soaked due to the rain. Across the street, however, bordering the cemetery, was a stone (concrete?) wall. I crossed and settled down on a shady portion of the wall.










At this point in time, I realized that my camera batteries had run down. So, I switched to the iPad and its built-in camera.







On the bus headed back to Corning’s Northside, I couldn’t resist taking more photos. Not through the dirty windows beside me, but through the fairly clean panes on the doors.


The Alternative School for Math & Science (ASMS).







A couple of houses on First Street.







An east end view of Founder’s Pavilion.




The building behind the cars is Guthrie Corning Hospital Cancer Center.




Back at the bus stop where the driver takes a five-minute break.







Almost home, I walked the last few blocks, just for the exercise and glimpses of beauty like this.




************

Cemetery on west side of Park Avenue ~ August 2011