Roaming around Corning

More photos taken with my iPad Mini. The first two and the last photo were taken using the Hipstamatic App. Also, on the last photo, I used my iPhoto editing capabilities and changed the coloring to sepia.

The first photo, above, is yet another shot of the Benjamin Patterson Inn on Pulteney Street. I never tire of taking photos there and when my son is next in town, I plan to drag him there to join me (and further instruct me) in taking photos of the inn, the log cabin and other areas of the property with Hipstamatic (which he has on his iPhone).


East Market Street used to continue on past Wall Street. Now it stops there and can be continued on foot or, as in this case, on bicycles, past the Radisson Hotel, the Social Security Offices, the Southeast Steuben County Library and the city skating rink.

Delicate little roses outside the Radisson...

Facing west you can see the corner of Wall and Market Streets...

Pips...

There's been a barber shop on Market Street in this spot for a long, long time. Reasonable prices and friendly banter. Like many other establishments on the street, they offer free access to their WiFi. I given you a link that will give you a bit of history on the shop.

Click on any picture to enlarge it and see more details.

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?

Simply Sepia and Two Firemen

Clayton is a Corning mailman and a talented photographer. I noticed that he recently did an excellent photo of our older post office building in sepia (a brownish pigment) which made for an intriguing variation from typical color photos.

I liked Clayton's work so much that I decided to try out an entire post of sepia photos, in no particular order and for your viewing pleasure...

Corning Inc headquarters' roof backed by Corning's Southside hill

Social Security Office

Southeast Steuben County Library

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Radisson Hotel

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Stepping outside the sepia arena, here's another colorful photo from the Corning Fire Department

Faces of Corning

A big part of Corning's charm is its people. First impressions do count, but remember to take a second look.


Having said that, I stepped out of Corning for the first few photos--just a few miles away at the Steuben County Fair in Bath. This fair is considered the oldest continuous fair in the U.S.A. As I walked down the midway, this woman tried her non-stop spiel on us. I stopped and asked, "May I take your picture?" She replied, "Sure," and jumped up. "No, no," I said, "Stay the way you were. I love your hair and the way you were sitting."

We were watching the pig race (my daughter and the grands were; I was watching the people) when I spotted Donna from Donna's Restaurant in Corning. She's in the middle of this photo, just behind a little blond-haired girl.

One more from the fairgrounds...

The sun was blazing. The umbrella was up for shade.

A random runner on the dike along the Chemung River.

Fishing in comfort...

Every year this woman sells hot dogs from her cart. She's at the east end of Market Street. She told me she wanders around Corning on foot, too, taking photographs and posting them on her Facebook page.

Doc Possum and his merry band of performers entertained hundreds of kids at the Corning Civic Center as part of the Southeast Steuben County Library's summer program.

Though not a close-up, this photo represents an important part of Corning. The young people and their sports programs. This is the field at Corning's East High School.

I always love to talk with visitors to Corning. These two, one from New England and the other from Michigan, were looking up at Tom Gardner's artwork --a huge face coming out of the bricks.

A Typical Walk

I know that when I view other people’s blogs, I try to picture the writer/photographer as they move through the moments they give words and pictures to.

So, in case you’ve wondered about the trivialities of my walks through Corning (you haven’t really wondered, have you?!), I’m going to share one walk in detail.


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August 6, 2012 ~ I left home at 10:45 A.M. and walked to the nearby Senior Center where I stood out front, waiting for a bus.

Wait a minute! A bus? What about the walk? Be patient, my friends. Sometimes I take a bus to another point in Corning and walk back home.

So, whenever I stand waiting at the Senior Center, I stare at -- the parking lot, the sky, cars, people. Mostly the sky. And, I take lots of photos. Once I’m back home and on my computer, I delete, crop, enhance, whatever it takes to get a photo to look its best (at least in my opinion).

Then came the 10:51 A.M. bus, on time! A swing through Wegmans’ parking lot with several passengers disembarking. Back to Bridge Street, quickly followed by a left turn onto Market Street. I rode all the way to the end of the street.

Oh, another reason I sometimes ride the bus is because I’ll have my hands full. This time I’m carrying gluten-free cookies, a check and library books. The cookies were for Donna at Pip’s Boutique. She’s eating gluten-free and white-sugar free these days and this gave me a chance to hear about why and how it’s improved her health and energy.

Next, a stop at Corning Credit Union to deposit a check.

Back to the east end of the street where I peeked around the corner and took a photo of the demolition and clean-up going on for the planned transportation center.

At the Southeast Steuben County Library, I returned one book and picked up two more they had on hold for me:

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life by Eleanor Roosevelt


The Social Security Administration building is right next door to the library.

Back at the alley behind the Southside businesses on Market Street, I took more photos of the Transportation Center cleanup project.

This building has asbestos warning signs plastered all over...

At the end of the block, still in the alley, I couldn’t resist taking pictures of this fellow making a delivery to Van Heusen.

Alley Art Mural Project...

Sometimes the alleys are just as interesting as the fronts of the streets.

Notice the vines (real) in the bottom right hand corner of the next photo...

The ARTS...

Moving back to the front of Market Street, I popped into The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. This chair (created, I was told by a passer-by, by Noel Sylvester, was in the front window and caught my eye.

It was 1:12 P.M. by the time I finally reach home. Because...

I stopped for lunch (Couldn’t resist. So many wonderful culinary aromas up and down the street).

I sauntered.

I strolled. (Oh, wait, that’s basically the same as ‘sauntered’, isn’t it.)

Anyway, I took my time and totally enjoyed my walk.