Roanoke, Virginia, March 2026

Looking south and west from above Shenandoah Avenue.

Cover to “The Red Mother” #12, Jeremy Haun, 2020

Boom! Studios.

“It was a purple dusk, that sweet time when the day’s sleeping is over …”

This meme appeals soooooooooo much to this former psych major.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

“The Wearing of the Green,” Ellen H. Clapsaddle, 1907

Photo of Ireland by Luca Sartoni, 2019

Photo credit:Luca Sartoni from Vienna, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Roanoke, Virginia, looking south from above Shenandoah Avenue, March 2026

“March,” Alfons Mucha, 1898

From Les Douze Mois (The 12 Months), published in Cocorico magazine.

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