First came the rain, then the fog. A heavy blanket fell on Floyd Monday afternoon as  a prelude to evening showers as a final part of a deluge that dropped four inches or more on the region since Sunday.

On Friday nights in Floyd, the street is the scene and the people are the stars.

Hanging over Harvestwood Road in Floyd County, VA. Shot with a Canon 7D DSLR with an 80-200 zoom f/2.8 lens. Exposure: 1/3o00th of a second at f:11. ISO: 1250. Manual settings.

A September moon amid clouds along Virginia Rte. 8 in Montgomery County, VA. Shot with a Canon 5D, MKII DSLR, 8-200 zooms f/2.8 lens. Manual exposure: 1/2000th of a second at f:11. ISO: 1000.

A Blue Ridge mountain sunset with a touch of blue. Shot along U.S. 221 at Bent Mountain in Roanoke County, VA.  Canon 5D, MK II DSLR with 70-200 f/2.8 zoom lens. 1/2000th of a second at f:8. ISO: 800. Manual exposure.  Slight enhancement in Adobe Photoshop.

The quilters worked inside the Floyd Country Store Friday as musicians Bernie Coveney, Chris Luster and Rob Neukirch played on stage during the fall Harvest Festival.

Although rain dampened the spirits during the afternoon, the festival drew a large crowd during a morning breakfast and for most of the cool September day.

Both the photo and video were shot on a Droid X cellphone.

Setting sun south of Independence, Virginia near the North Carolina border.

The setting son near Meadows of Dan, Virginia.

A Blue Ridge mountain sunset, shot from the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Roanoke.

Fog greeted me early Sunday as I headed out on the Blue Ridge Parkway for an extended ride down into North Carolina for breakfast.  By lunch, I was off the Parkway and into West Virginia for an afrernoon meal at Pipestem State Park.

By day’s end, I was back on the Parkway and the sunset, again in North Carolina, provided another view.  Both photos were enhanced with Photoshop.