Thursday Doors: Christmas L.I.S.T. (Life In a Small Town)
Looking Down Main Street
Today we are celebrating Christmas Thursday Doors in my small spot of the world! The views are along Main Street, our shopping area, one short block, from one stop light to the next. There are only two stoplights in town! The shops are along just one side of the street. Across the street from the shops is the library and the “green” where concerts are held in the summer and the kids play football in the winter. I hope you enjoy the tour! Merry Christmas!
They say our town population is 11,000, but that includes a wide country/farm area too. I’d say about three thousand of us actually live within walking distance (a mile or so) of town. We do not get mail delivery. We must go to the post office and pick it up. Of course, that’s how we keep up with all the goings on!!
The Village Store
The Ladies’ Garden Club make the Christmas arrangements to hang all around town.
The Work of the Garden Club
The doors can be left open today, as I took these pictures on Sunday, December 18, the temperature was 66 degrees!
Local, Affordable and Handmade
Most of our restaurants have outdoor seating, although in the summer it is so hot here, it is too hot to sit outside unless it is very early or very late in the day! In the background is Davidson College.
Mestizo Restaurant
You have to have a Bike Shop!
The Bike Shop
And the Davidson College Shop always looks cheerful! When the college is closed for breaks it is very quiet on the streets!
All Ready For Santa!
Now this is the “real deal” bookstore!
Mainstreet Books
Sign at Mainstreet Books
And we have nice banners to display lest you forget where you are!
Christmas In Davidson
Nandina
Raefords Barber Shop is an institution in town, been here forever!
Raefords Barber Shop
We got new signs a few years back!
Park Here!
Monkee’s, the ladies apparel shop.
Monkee’s, You Might Need a Bigger Closet
And finally, everyone needs a Pickled Peach!
The Pickled Peach
I hope you have enjoyed my spot in the world! See you in the New Year!
This is just one of many photos in the Thursday Door Collection featured by Norm2.0! Won’t you join in or take a peak at all the doors?
PS……………….The BIG NEWS!!!! I have been working on a new blog site since October! So I will introduce it on January 1st! I will no longer be posting on this site after January 1st, although it will remain up to view. I have 3 years of work on this blog, too much to let just disappear!! My new blog features my photos much better and on the computer the website fills the entire screen! I hated having all the wasted space in my background, although I loved the black, it made my photos POP! Well I was up for a change! So I hope to continue to hear from all of you in the New Year! Look for me at https://www.ThatTravelLadyInHerShoes, a slight change in name!
Big News
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19 Responses to “Thursday Doors: Christmas L.I.S.T. (Life In a Small Town)”
I loved looking at the photos of your home town. What a gorgeous place. Good luck with your new blog!
It’s really small! It’s a place where everybody knows everybody.
Your town looks lovely and its Christmas decorations and decorating are beautiful! We haven’t seen 66 around here for quite some time, but at least this week it’s in the 20’s and 30’s. Last week we had a day where I woke to -10 and that didn’t include wind chill.
janet
A very festive, colorful trip through your town. Good luck with your new site. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you.
Thank you and same to you!
I think your town is lovely! I love the pots and sprigs the Ladies Club made for the town. I need to learn how to make some sprigs for the lanterns, and a swag to hang over my front door.
Best of luck with your new Blog! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you! The garden club makes about 40 baskets and planters to place about town! It is quite the effort and looks so nice!
well I look forward to your new blog – and I also enjoyed the christmas in your small town door stroll…
now where is that mail place? I am ready for the scoop. 🙂
It’s our local post office! It has our biggest parking lot in town and if you are going to get run over this is going to be the place! When you go to the post you see many of your neighbors and get the current scoop and gossip!
Oh that is such a rarity these days – 😉
Thanks for the tour. It looks like a lovely place. Gotta love a place named The Pickled Peach. Looking forward to seeing the new blog 🙂
Thank you! Looking forward to next years Thursday Doors!
Lovely photos. All the best with the new blog, looking forward to it.
Thank you Jean and Merry Christmas!
All the very best to you, too. 🙂
What a wonderful little tour. Beautiful photos and some nice doors.
Beautiful photos! Looks like exactly the kind of town that I would like to visit. I look forward to checking out your new blog soon!
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the tour of your small town; sounds like a great place to visit.