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Lee Highway, Roanoke, Virginia

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Cover to Alanis Morissette’s “You Learn” Single, 1995

Warner Bros. Records.

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“Forever – is composed of Nows,” by Emily Dickinson

Forever – is composed of Nows –
‘Tis not a different time –
Except for Infiniteness –
And Latitude of Home –

From this – experienced Here –
Remove the Dates – to These –
Let Months dissolve in further Months –
And Years – exhale in Years –

Without Debate – or Pause –
Or Celebrated Days –
No different Our Years would be
From Anno Dominies –

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What the *$#@?

Thanks, Amazon, but I honestly didn’t mean to order my belt from goddamned Munchkinland.

Who was this designed for?  A ventriloquist dummy?

Did they pass along my order to the Build-A-Bear Workshop?

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“The Apparition,” Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, 1895

Oil on canvas.

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Peters Creek Road, Roanoke, VA

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“View of Delft from the Southwest,” Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, circa 1615

Oil on canvas.

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You’re god damned right.

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Turkey Vultures!

This is just a photo that I dug up from 2017 — those great winged horrors that you see are carrion-eating turkey vultures (cathartes aura).  They were seemingly everywhere when I first came to Roanoke that year — but I haven’t seen too many since.  (Or maybe they just haven’t again roosted near enough for me to see them — there are plenty of birds with tremendous wingspans overhead, and I don’t think they’re eagles.)

Turkey vultures are truly ugly beasts.

 

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“Large Raid in Kronstadt,” Ivan Aivazovsky, 1836

Oil on canvas.

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