September 2025 — last night’s dusk.
These cell phone videos don’t really do the scene justice. They looked soooo cool soaring and circling as a flock. If you listen closely during the videos, you can hear them chirping.
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2025’s first snow in Roanoke, Virginia
Well … it WAS snowing in Roanoke a little while ago. And it was coming down pretty hard too. Then the sun came out and it vanished completely.
Campbell Avenue at Market Square.
Campbell Avenue and Market Square, Roanoke, VA, December 2022
Town always looks pretty around Christmastime.
Sunglasses Guy at the end of the video looks like he thought I was surveilling him. That was totally not my intention, Sir.
Market Square and Market Street, Roanoke, VA, June 2022
I passed a neat milestone today. With my letter in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, I’ve now seen my writing appear in 50 periodicals (in addition to standalone publications like anthologies and such). I started waaaaaay back in 1996 or so with my first job as a reporter for the Culpeper Star-Exponent.
This arrives just a bit ahead of my 50th birthday, too — so I celebrated with a strawberry lemonade in Market Square.
Christmastime in Market Square, 2021
Roanoke, Virginia.
Campbell Avenue and Market Square, Roanoke, Virginia, January 2019
My cell phone camera is kinda terrible at night. Sorry.
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