Hooptie Mobiles

The Hooptie Mobile offers transportation especially for parties--such as will be held on New Year's Eve.

Quiet winter hill

Prices Fork Road is less than half a mile from this old field.

Power Plant from Stanger

A power plant has been at this site for a long time.

Another kind of holiday decoration

One holiday tradition is to drive past the homes with holiday lights.

A house up the street

Holiday lights are still shining.

On Main Street

Holiday lights are visible from the road into town.

Advent candles

The front yard of a home on Fincastle Dr. has these advent candles every year.

Hillside Landscape

The Blacksburg Hill Golf Course is empty and the town is quiet.

Smithfield Plantation View

Parallel horizontal and vertical lines fill the view from the Smithfield Plantation House.

Winter tree

First day of winter in Blacksburg is cold, windy, and clear.

Tower at Communication company building

Many of these towers fill the landscape in the community.

Gazebo at the Duck Pond

The Duck Pond has a different beauty in every kind of weather including foggy and rainy.

Horse Farm

They were smiling, posing for the photograph.

Bus stop shelter at Windsor Hills

This bus stop shelter is designed so those waiting can see if the bus is coming.

Rock at Whitethorne

This rock is near the New River at Whitethorne.

Power scooter

Transportation is what you are willing and able to do.

Greenhouse near Smithfield

Lights glow from inside a greenhouse near Smithfield Plantation.

New River

At the boat ramp into the New River at Whitethorne.

From the golf course

Looking across the valley toward Paris Mountain on a clear cold day.

Solitude

The historic building, Solitude, on a rainy day.

Bus stop shelter at Strubbles Crossing

There are many styles of architecture among the bus stop shelters

Different Fences

Three styles of fences surround the historic Smithfield Plantation home.

Crossing Prices Fork Road

They seem to be watching the traffic.

Along Southgate Dr.

A cold, winter day with beautiful blue sky.

Front yard on Clay Street

Art is tucked away on many Blacksburg streets.

Mountains from Clay St.

It is beautiful, clear, and cold.

Huckleberry

The walking path called the Huckleberry, a "rails to trails" project, crosses Southgate Road on this bridge.

McDonald's Mill

The road through Catawba Valley, where the mill is located, was once the main route between Blacksburg and Roanoke.

Bicentennial mural

Several artists created this mural on a building that still houses a photography business.

Hoge Pasture

The pasture is on a hill across Graves Ave. from the town golf course.

Hokie Express

Blacksburg Transit uses this for a special route.

Lane Stadium

Commonwealth Classic football game, University of Virginia vs. Virginia Tech

Bill Brown Stadium

School sports have been played here for many years but these sports may be moved to another site.

Clay Street Water Tank

This town structure serves many purposes and, to me, looks like an old-fashioned hatbox.

Still a Dismal Day

A view of the working buildings at Kentland, the Virginia Tech Research Farm

Art on Draper Road

Metal flowers on Draper Road still wear the pom-poms of a football game

Family Cemetery

Though Kentland is the Virginia Tech Research Farm, it was a family home for generations.

Too incongruous

It is bitter cold. Plastic plants seem just not right.

Home on hill

Homes come in all shapes and sizes.

Historic Farm Structure at Kentland

Work to restore this historic building has been halted. On a cold, blustery day, its past almost seemed visible in the frame protecting the original structure.

Kentland Farm

Patterns of color seem to appear in research plots.

Crumbling Barn

A relic of a time when farming was a vital part of the economy in the valley between Roanoke and Blacksburg.

Development on Prices Fork Road

Parallel lines in high level work.

Bicentennial banner

The bicentennial logo was one of the first stylized versions of the historic 16 blocks.

Blue Ridge Mountains

Clouds were low in the mountains today.

Extreme Makeover Home

This home was created by the television program Extreme Makeover.

Amphitheater

This amphitheater is near buildings where there are many people who enjoy concerts.

Astronomy observatory

Virginia Tech students use the telescope in this facility.

Dinosaur Footprints

There is an exhibit of dinosaur footprints in the Virginia Tech Museum, too.

Dinosaur in Museum

This 22-foot long Allosaurus Fragilis is in the Virginia Tech GeoSciences Museum. The Allosaurus was the largest carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic Period.