{"id":1958,"date":"2025-07-29T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:23:30","slug":"a-return-to-ithaca-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/a-return-to-ithaca-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"A return to Ithaca, soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a long weekend trip to Ithaca planned in the near future, and while I went there about 9 years ago, I am ready to go visit again, with a fresh look at the Finger Lakes area. I’m trying to do a little trip planning, as far as sights to see and towns to visit, and unfortunately, the pictures I took on my 2016 trip did not have location tags turned on, so I don’t recall where everything that I might want to see again is located.<\/p>\n

I do know, however, that this mosaic street art mural (seen above) is in the downtown Ithaca area, probably near the pedestrian zone\/shopping area on State Street. And as I’m looking through the old pictures, I see quite a bit of street art, another one is shown below … but in addition to seeing art, I’m hoping to go to Watkins Glen State Park, which I didn’t do last time, and hoping to do some kayaking, hiking, and some other outdoor activities.<\/p>\n

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Street art featuring Native American figures as seen in Ithaca, NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a random picture from that 2016 trip to Ithaca that is fun to see again … I must have been walking around a neighborhood somewhere and saw this unique horse sink sitting in someone’s front yard. I love this, because it’s so odd. If I saw something like this now, I’d be tempted to take it home!<\/p>\n

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A sculptural horse sink seen sitting in someone’s front yard in Ithaca, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a long weekend trip to Ithaca planned in the near future, and while I went there about 9 years ago, I am ready to go visit again, with a fresh look at the Finger Lakes area. I’m trying to do a little trip planning, as far as sights to see and towns to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,47,50],"tags":[398,513],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-trips","category-street-art","category-travel-explore","tag-ithaca","tag-mosaic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}