Memorial Day

The pillars on the Virginia Tech War Memorial symbolize virtues including duty and service. This is sacrifice.

Summer Arts Festival

The Arts Festival, featuring a lot of guest artists as well as local stars, starts next week.

Rafters

Farmers Market merchants are sheltered under these rafters.

Circle in sidewalk

The circle is by the community library.

Delivery Truck

Deliveries being made.

Y Thrift Shop

The Y Thrift Shop has bargains, every day.

Thomas Conner House

Historic building on Draper Road. A story written in 1976 in the local newspaper, the News Messenger, said the house had been built for $10,000 in 1882.

Some symbols of Blacksburg

Street lights and flower baskets along Main St. and at the Farmers Market

Reading at bookstore

A bookstore hosted a reading by Fred First. One of his books, "Slow Road Home" he describes as a "field trip through time and place." The place is his beloved Blue Ridge Mountains.

Community Safety Festival

The Via College of Osteopathic Medicine tried to have a festival to showcase the community's safety organizations. However a major thunderstorm forced all the visitors to run for cover.

Pink Bike

A bicycle near the Farmer's Market.

Music among the flowers

The Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty organization celebrated the beauty of the Hahn Garden with music by the Jugbusters.

Plants in the window

The plants seem to be thriving in a business building stairway.

A row of signs

The designers coordinated the signs in this strip mall.

Places for Rest

Seems a welcoming community when people are invited to sit and watch.

Tall Oaks Drive end

Stormy day.

On Virginia Tech Drillfield

Lots of action in the community because of graduation.

New Pharmacy building

One of the local businesses has moved up Main St. to a new building.

Golf lesson

Golf pro at Virginia Tech's course demonstrates during a lesson

Silo

In past years there were working farms in this part of the community.

Virginia Tech chapel

A program on April 16 at the Virginia Tech chapel.

Clearing trees

Cleaning up after weather damage.

Winding Road ends

This is an area where condos are planned. It is near the airport.

Another part of Westview Cemetery

Old part of cemetery

Clouds over the first tee

Golf season is getting started.

Raines Real Estate Office

Raines Real Estate has an office in this former family home on North Main St.

Duck Pond in spring

Trees by the Duck Pone are just turning green.

Hiking trails

Sky is overcast and the trail solitary.

Tombstone

The hillside part of the cemetery has some old grave markers

Part of Westview Cemetery

From the hillside of the cemetery looking across E. Roanoke St.

Entrance to hiking trail

The orange marker was to caution hikers about landscape work along the trail.