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Escaped tiger in southern Roanoke.

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People, 2025 could not get any weirder than this.  There is now an escaped tiger in the vicinity of Cave Spring/southern Roanoke.  Check the local news.  The radio station is doing better than TV in keeping up with the story, I think, even if there isn’t much detail yet.

Supposedly the animal escaped from its temporary enclosure on Mill Mountain — it was being transported by Jowicker Large Game Farm between Knoxville, TN and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.  It apparently a “juvenile,” which means it isn’t full-sized, but the news is saying it could easily kill a person.  So don’t mess with it.

There is a Cave Spring resident, April Flanagan, who told the radio that she spotted the animal walking north alongside North Jefferson Street.

I will keep you posted when I learn more.  Please be safe.

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Birds on a wire.

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Walnut Avenue Bridge in Roanoke, VA, November 2021

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I am not an excellent photographer by any means, but I’d like to think I got lucky with this set of pictures.  I set out for a nice, long walk on a temperate Autumn Friday — and decided to cross Walnut Avenue Bridge for the first time.  I was lucky, because the setting sun seemed to set Mill Mountain’s trees ablaze.  (And I didn’t even realize I’d be treated to a great view of the Roanoke River beside it.)  What a nice and unexpected turn of events at the end of a November day.

I’m sorry, as always, for the shaky-cam! (The bridge was shaking too.)

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“Night on Mill Mountain?”

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I thought this Campbell Avenue storefront display was pretty cute.  What you see is a gargoyle overlooking one of those quaint ceramic villages.  (Sorry for the terrible picture … there were reflections in that glass.)

I don’t know if this diorama is an intentional reference to the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence  in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” (1940), but that’s what it makes me think of.  It would make it a really clever homemade Halloween decoration.

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Trains passing beneath Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA, October 2021

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Vicinity of Jefferson Street SW and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

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Vicinity of Williamson Road around downtown Roanoke, VA

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July 2021.

Roanoke used to be called “Big Lick,” of all things.

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This second one I’m a little proud of — that’s the Mill Mountain Star that you see in the background at left.

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Looking southwest.

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I found Area 51!!!  And it was taken over by the Black Oil Alien from “The X-Files.”

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Just a few more pictures of yesterday’s rainbow by Mill Mountain.

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(It was really damned cool.)

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Rainbow at Mill Mountain!!

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This was the massive rainbow late yesterday afternoon in front of Mill Mountain. The video doesn’t do it justice. It was super-bright and it was gigantic.  It looked like it was hitting the ground just a few blocks away.

If you look carefully, you can see a second rainbow arc above it at right.

There was a pretty neat sunshower preceding it as well.

 

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Roanoke, Virginia, July 2018 (2)

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5th Street Overpass near the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Mill Mountain is in the background.  If you look closely at the sixth photo, you can see what looks like a gutted fighter jet to the right of the two antiquated trains.  I can only assume those are connected with the museum. (So, too, is the rusting hulk in the seventh.)

 

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Roanoke, Virginia, July 2018

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These are just a few shots of the City of Roanoke in the vicinity of Mill Mountain.  I really like the style of the houses here, although I don’t know what it is.  They’re truly immense, despite looking a bit boxlike.

 

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