These little Roanoke fur-twerps need to be more careful about getting underfoot. We not-quite-middle-aged New Yorkers aren’t used to animals darting about our feet. And we … can’t see quite as well as we used to, either.
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It’s a bird … It’s a plane …
I took this video a few hours ago, just before that brief thunderstorm over Roanoke. This looks like one of those AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) planes that the military uses, doesn’t it? (See the dish-shaped radar device atop it.) It was circling the area.
I remember seeing these in the 1980’s as a kid on Long Island (along with plenty of F-14 “Tomcats” buzzing our neighborhood), because Grumman Aerospace had a major plant out in Calverton. They actually designed and tested new fighter jets there — which the kids thought was pretty neat.) The AWACS aircraft were the planes that could detect incoming planes or missiles from Russia. (Nowadays, Senate Republicans would block funding for that sort of thing.)
I suppose this could be a civilian plane … I can only imagine that the radar technology has other applications. I honestly don’t know.
Artwork outside Wilson Hughes Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia.
Campbell Avenue. February 2019.
Campbell Avenue and Market Square, Roanoke, Virginia, January 2019
My cell phone camera is kinda terrible at night. Sorry.
The Mill Mountain Star, seen from Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, VA
January 2019.
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.
