Corner of College and Draper

Certainly a major intersection with both the promenade vehicle lanes both of which were quiet considering the community is booming.

End of baseball season

Some action at the end of baseball season.

Yard Band

Beautiful fall evening brought out music.

Amorphallus titanum aka Stinky Phil

Aka Corpse plant, it is expected to bloom tomorrow.  The plant blooms about every five years and when it does the strong scent seems to smell like rotting flesh.  It comes from a rain forest in Sumatra.  This one lives at the Jacob A. Lutz Garden Complex at Virginia Tech

St. Phillip's

The Anglican Church has changed its name to St. Phillip's.

Read Between the Wines

Poet Nikki Giovanni captivated the supporters of the Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation at an event this evening.

Welcoming students

This year the regular Welcome Students set up on a street that many, many, students walk to get to the Virginia Tech campus.  Yes the cookies are baked by members of the church, and these welcomers said the fruit was much more popular than the cookies.  

Watching the bullpen

Baseball action at Calfee Park.

Gobble Cakes window signs

Gobble Cakes has a resident poet.

still learning about new meters

Still on the learning curve for the new parking meters.  These meters, on one of the streets, still offer to take coins as well as credit cards.  I have not tried them, but I will do so...soon.

New Era in Parking Fee

Blacksburg instituted a new style of paying for parking.  No more coins in a meter.  The new terminals take credit cards.

Traffic: cars and people

The community is booming.

View of the valley

From the top of the Hill golf course.

Deer again

Somehow, I can't resist taking their photo when they wait and pose.

Football team fund-raising

Some of the Blacksburg High School team members fund-raising in front of the Kroger's grocery store.

Climbers

Crimper's Climbing Gym had a session for young climbers to test their skills.

Just a field

Along Clay St.

Washington St.

This is the end of Washington St.

vegetable garden continued

this continues to be a beautiful garden

Power lines and haybales

These are square bales.  Most of the bales I see are round.

This is my best side

Ready for the show.

Artist Working

In the Hahn Horticulture Garden.

Summer evening

Blacksburg offers concerts out on Henderson Lawn.

Downtown lines and rectangles

Seemed no curves or circles

Livestock arena

Inside the Alphin-Stuart Livestock arena

Art at the garden

The Horticulture Garden also provide art:  Ortho Tango and the steer.

Hydrangas looking good

Flowers near my home.

Signs

Kipps Elementary School has it right.

4-H'ers showing hogs

Montgomery County 4-H Fair livestock show.  Young men and women learning agriculture.

Blue moon over Blacksburg

Last night's blue moon was still out this morning.