College Avenue redo

Work to create a promenade along College Avenue started.  There will be wider sidewalks and narrower roadways.

Fun-n-Games

This business is on the extra Main St.

Home of a gardener

Every year, the landscaping around this home is abundant.  It is half a block from downtown Main St.

Summer flowers

Weather has been lovely and the potted plants are thriving.

Mountain Lake

The water level at Mountain Lake remains low but it is still beautiful.

Parking spaces?

The original lines of this part of the extra Main St. are sort of visible.  The lighter, white pavement near the Cook's Clean Center sign used to be parking spaces for patrons.  Patrons could drive up Main St. and pull into the business.  Now there is a larger walk way and the 10-minute parking spaces.

Quilt festival

The Blue Ridge Quilt Festival featured quilts, wearables and art quilts.

wdbj channel 7 news item

Roanoke television station did a live promotion of Crimper's Climbing Gym.

Baptist Church

The Baptist Church has been a part of the downtown.

Foggy morning

Downtown is out there.

Back of Sharkey's

Sharkey's is a wonderful restaurant.  I especially like it during football season.  This is a view from behind Main St.

Commencement weekend at Va. Tech

True these are old photos....but the day Michelle Obama was in Blacksburg, the mailbox disappeared.  The next day it reappeared.

Concert on Henderson Lawn

The summer concert series is a grand part of summer in this community.  Gerry Timlin is one of the performers.  He always is aware of the camera pointed at him in the middle of a performance.

Flags

Flag day.

Edited sign

Signs fascinate me.  Someone edited this one.

Web in another of my worlds

This began to look like a web being created on Main St.

Web in my world

Some spider worked hard.

Music at the Gala

Hahn Horticulture Garden Gala featured music, good food, and drink, all designed to encourage patrons to raise funds for the garden.

Branch among trees

Many green areas in the community.

Sunrise

Today was an especially beautiful day starting with the sunrise through the trees.

Pentacostal Holiness Church

Church on Warren St.

Alas, no live view of Venus

Alas, the telescope was the center of attention because it was too cloudy for the crowd of people who wanted to use it to see Venus cross the sun.  The Virginia Tech department of physics offered a good view from webcams in the Hahn Hall North auditorium.  Thank you.

Laundry

Main St. is visible from these apartments where a laundry line is in use.

Stadium Woods

The future of Stadium Woods, on the Virginia Tech campus, is being decided on amidst pleas to leave it as it is.  It is near the university's sports complex, apartments, and a walking path.

Community is quiet

The extra Main St. as well as Main St. is almost empty.

Second mural

The painting of the second mural at the Farmers' Market is underway.  The painter said five are planned.