Christmas Snow

2013 Santa Run

Lots of Santa hats and a few that were a little more festive at the Santa Run.

http://www.binghamtonsantarun.com/

Looking In

Festive holiday window display at Ellis Brother Furniture in Binghamton.  

We do not have many stores that have windows to decorate in Binghamton, but this store always has a nice display.          

Theme Day - Looking Out

This guy's photo was taken at a farmers market called Frog Pond 

 is a little bit of a drive from Binghamton.     

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Madame Butterfly

The little pups were the Madame Butterfly photo for the Mutt-ropolitan Opera Calendar whose proceeds benefit the http://www.tricitiesopera.com/   Love the little diva on the far right.

Winter Chill

It's winter in Binghamton and there is a dusting of snow on the ground and these little grape colored berries make a nice contrast to the snowy cover. 

Duck Derby

The ducks were supposed to swim down the river for a benefit for The Broome County Human Society, but the river was too high and the current too strong so the shelter dogs jumped into the sea of ducks and picked the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.    

Drink Pink

I didn't see anything pink I wanted to take a shot of today so 

I made something pink and then got to drink it too. 

POTUS

The President of the US stopped in Binghamton yesterday to do a town hall meeting at Binghamton University.     Not a lot of people actually got the in person view, but apparently many lined the streets to see the motorcade.   I stayed away from the crowd and traffic jams and just took a clip from the website broadcast.   He said he was told he had to have a "spiedies" while he was here.   Not sure if I want to feel proud or embarrassed that what we had to offer him was some marinated meat her in Bing.

B.C.

Cartoonist Johnny Hart was the creator of Comic Strip B.C. and was born in the Greater Binghamton area.    He lent his cartoons to the county -  Broome County - B.C. and this cute dinosaur adorns our county parks.   he also lent other cartoons to other area attractions.  Learn more aboutJohnny Hart here.

Old Time Rock 'n' Roll

These are at a little place called Red's Kettle Inn and have not worked in years but you used to be able to play music at the jukebox from your table.  5 cents a song. 

The also serve Hot Pies which is what people around here used to call pizza a long time ago.

A Dirty Slate

Not sure exactly what this project is, but these posters were posted on a building in Binghamton.  Guess someone wants to know what would make Bing. better.    One guy's idea is  to get "Big Belly Trash Cans".    Is that all it would take ?

2013 Martini Walk

2nd annual Martini Walk.   12 bars with 12 different little martinis.   Best ones were Citrus Bomb, Salted Caramel, Pink Panther, Strawberry Lemonade Milkshake and S'more. 

Eyes on Binghamton

Someone dressed up a planter in Binghamton with some cute little eyes to keep watch on the city. 

Kuznetsov Conquers the Wraith of Klahn

Alex Kuznetsov defeats Bradley Klahn in LG&T Tennis Challenger. for the Men's singles championship.      After a tough loss,  Klahn moved immediately to the doubles final where he and partner Michael Venus came up with the win.   

Tennis anyone ?

Alex Kuznetsov defeats Rhyne Williams today in one of the semifinal matches today at the LG&T Tennis Challenger.  

Game, Set, Match

Photo taken at the LG&T Tennis Classic which is a USTA Pro Circuit event.  

The number one seed Rhyne Williams defeated Nicolas Meister 7-5, 7-6

Blooms

Fancy Feet

      Spotted this fancy little pup today at the Otsiningo Farmer's Market today.   I would say he was the most well manicured (pup or person) at the market.   

Illusions of Grandeur

These photos are taken inside the The GoodWill Theatre.   It was designed by Sanford Lacey and built by George F. Johnson of Endicott Johnson Corp. in 1920 for the his employees and residents of the village of Johnson City.   Though it opened briefly a few times after, it  was largely closed in 1960.    The Goodwill Theater is renovating the theater and surrounding properties into a professional performing arts complex and magnet training academy.   The details that can still be seen,  despite the the deterioration, show how grand it once was and hopefully will be again. 

Green and Growing

This is Stephanie, Bret and Hazel of the Hemlock Creek CSA at our Otsiningo Park farmer's market serving up a delicious looking basket of greens for this weeks share.    I have to say that I feel a little out the loop as I did not even know this sort of thing existed, and I was a little jealous that other people were showing up with an empty basket and leaving with it chock full of great looking produce.   If not a member,  you can still pick up a few items that they have for sale at the market.  

Wrong Turn

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We do not have metro tandem buses in Binghamton. 

So this one must have taken a wrong turn and just kept going. 

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

First blooms of the year.

Garden Tools

It blooms again this year.

The Beauty of Decay

There is not a shortage of decay so I guess it's best to find some beauty in it.

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Man in the Tree

This is a crazy job

Great Day for a Crawl

  

The Binghamton University students celebrated the end of classes today with the annual Pub Crawl. Thanks to Chris and and his friends for the photo.

Mother's Day Macaron

This is a tough little cookie to make, but so pretty when they actually turn out.     

Bridge Runners

The Road Ahead

The McKenna 5K held to honor a Binghamton Univerity 

graduate and US Marine that was killed in Iraq.

 

St Pat's 4 Miler

The annual St. Patrick's Day 4 Miler is the next event in Binghamton's 2 week St. Patrick's Day celebration.     Lots of green including kilts and other crazy running gear- note the woman in the back left with her shamrock antlers and lucky underpants.