Wells Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia, March 2026

There is just something about Virginia skies, even during a frigid March day.

That antiquated building you see is the historic Hotel Roanoke, the original iteration of which was erected in 1882 (before being rebuilt).



Variant Cover to “Haunt” #1, Todd McFarlane, 2009

Image Comics.

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

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