Historic C-Street

There is a well-known street in our city called Commercial Street. It used to be the booming center of town a hundred years ago, then it was the scary part of town for a while. Finally, now it seems to be waking up and coming to life again. It is already home to Red Velvet, a clothing boutique owned by Elsie Larson from A Beautiful Mess and Askinosie Chocolate. But now, new businesses are popping up, like a pizza place, a deli, a coffee shop (!!!) and more beautiful vintage furniture and clothing stores, all within walking distance of my home.

Funny thing-I never bothered to explore my city on foot until I started running. Then one day I ran down Commercial Street and discovered there was so much more there than I had realized! I snapped these a couple months ago with my dad's Minolta, but you can see that I took my sweet time getting them developed.

Our house is currently on the market, and sometimes I feel impatient waiting for it to sell, but this is really a pretty nice place to be in the meantime. I like my creative little corner of Springfield.