Brewery at Prices Fork

 Prices Fork is a thriving community with diverse business--farm and brewery and others.

Virginia Tech Montgomery Regional Airport

 More a photo of the clouds than the airport, but the goal was a photo of the airport.

Nativity Scene

 A classic part of traditional holiday decorations.  The Wise Men don't get there for another few weeks.

Christmas luncheons

 At least the traditional holiday luncheon (bring-a-dish style) seems to be back this year.

Charging stations

 Many parking lots have these stations.  This is the lot by Squires Student Center on campus,

Christmas Concert

 Blue Ridge Vocal Connections, a community chorus, sang a show at the Lyric.

Local pharmacy

 Shopping

Statues by Municipal Building

 The statues have donned winter garb.  It is entitled Father and Son is by artist Jim Mills when he was a student at Virginia Tech.

St. Mary's Catholic Church

 Today is a holy day and the Catholic church was full. 

Climbing competition

 Crimper's Climbing Gym hosted a regional competition, called !Venga!.

Holiday decorations

 Gnome on Little Circle

Holiday celebration windows

 New River Art and Fiber's decorated windows for the season.

Part of Shop Small Saturday

 Downtown Blacksburg celebrated Shop Small Business Saturday with singing groups strolling the shops to entertain shoppers.

Side of building

 Seems to form stair steps along the side of building on Main St.

Lyric Theatre

 The Lyric offers a style of movies that includes "indie" films and classics.  Today was a modern film that explored the edges.

Smithfield Plantation

 Smithfield Plantation, home of Virginia founding family, the Prestons, welcomes tours and events.

K-9 Memorial

 This statue is at a memorial for police dogs at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Inside of a builder's truck

 Neatly organized.

Sustainable Blacksburg offers gift wrapping

 Practicing what it promotes, the Sustainable Blacksburg members work at the Y Craft Fair.

Alwood Oak on the Drillfield

 The Alwood Oak is one of the oldest trees on campus.  It was a small tree by Burruss Hall.

Restaurant on Main St.

 One of the newer restaurants which also has a brewery.  Named, the story goes, because the renovators found a maroon door,

A rare time of little traffic

 From a Virginia Tech entrance at Main St., no traffic.

Looks like Cadets in a game

 Drillfield is the site of many activities at Virginia Tech.

Fall day

 Today has been the "poster child" for perfect fall days.

Autumn color

 some trees are colorful.

Pumpkins again,

 This time they are my pumpkins.  To celebrate the season.

Tree has been replaced

 There was a tree in the middle of this circle which had to be removed.  New plantings have been started.

Pasture of a research farm

 One of the Virginia Tech research farms, near highway.

Voting site

 Community Center is a voting site and early voting is going on.

Pumpkins at Kroger

 Do some families eat them or are they only decorations?

Part of University Life

 Greek organizations are a part of student life.

Football season

 Lane Stadium at the entrance ceremony as the players enter the field.

Art at business

 Miller Off Main offers a display of art in the area around the business.

Drillfield

 Mid-day, the drillfield is quiet.  Later, there will probably be games and people enjoying the beautiful weather.

Traffic and people waiting at restaurants

 Even the day after a football game, there is traffic on Main St. and lines of patrons waiting at restaurant doors. 

The League uses qr code to help voters

 Just a reminder that voting is going on now.

Deer on a lawn

 Many deer are living here in Blacksburg.

Ready to celebrate

 Homes have the decorations up.

Dining at the Cellar patio

 The Cellar is still a fashionable dining establishment.  Its patio is on the Extra Main St.

Rain all day

 Yes, it is important to have rainy days.  The puddles fill the corners and the walking path.

Bandaloope performers

 Dancers on the wall at the Moss Center for the Arts.  

Blacksburg Country Club

 The Country Club has a delightful golf course.  It is in a beautiful valley in the rolling hills of the community no way near Country Club Drive which is downtown.

Lane Stadium football action

 Virginia Tech won the game.  It was celebrated as Military Appreciation day and the Corps of cadets alumni marched on to the field with the current students.

Football Team alumni also had a reunion.

Memorial of 9/11 steel

 This sculpture in Christiansburg, is a way to honor many.

Butterfly garden

 A Scout recognized that the appropriate blooms were started and he provided some additional care for a butterfly garden at a site near the rec center.