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The ol’ METEOR ploy.

My 2023 April Fool’s Day went well enough.  I didn’t get too many of my friends this year, but I still fooled a few on Facebook.  Ah, the old chestnut of the crashed meteor.

I think the name of the radio station at the end was a nice touch:



[Okay. The news said that a meteor fell in downtown Roanoke. I know that there were multiple points of impact, but they’re saying it was a single meteor that broke up upon entry.

NO INJURIES OR DEATHS. But the northern section of Elmwood Park is ON FIRE near the amphitheater. It began when the meteor struck near the trees along Elm Avenue.

Roanoke Fire Department responding.

Will share details here. But, if you can, try tuning in to W-AFD.]



Dancin’ with the Star.

I am endlessly trying to get juuuuuust the right photo of St. John’s Episcopal Church with the Mill Mountain Star in the background.  I’ll probably never get there, but sometimes the results are fun.

As I’ve noted in the past, this is at the corner of Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street in Roanoke, Virginia.



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The Mill Mountain Star seen past St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Looking south past the corner of Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street, Roanoke, VA, August 2021.

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“A chance meeting with someone from the past is in store.”

Which store?  Target?  Victoria’s Secret?  B&D Comic Shop on Elm Avenue?

Not to be a Negative Ned here, but there are some people from my past I wouldn’t want to meet by chance.  That’s why they’re in the past.

Though it’s important to note that my fortune here says the past, not necessarily my past.  Which I suppose could mean I’ll meet William Jennings Bryant at the bait shop or something.

I probably think too much about these things.



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Elm Avenue and Main Street Bridge, Roanoke, Virginia

December 2018.

That’s B&D Comics at the end of Elm Avenue, right before the street turns into Main Street Bridge as it crosses over the railroad tracks and the Roanoke River.  There’s something indefinably quaint and cool about the town’s comic shop being “down by the train tracks.”  To answer the sign’s query, comics were 75 cents when I was a kid.

The shots of the bridge and river here are poor.  (Sorry.)  But it’s actually a pretty spot in Roanoke on a nice day.

 

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