One of those moments when clouds cast shadows over the valley while the mountain remains sunlit. It looks so surreal when that happens. (This picture doesn’t really do it justice.)
Roanoke, Virginia.
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The Hancock Building on 1st Street in Roanoke has what looks like an art deco facade.
I guess I never noticed how cool it looked until I stopped and really looked at it.
The scent of these alone evokes memories.
When I was a kid, strawberries used to grow wild in the fields outside my neighborhood. They were always really small, but still tasty.
HERO POET SAVES CITY.
A truly bizarre thing happened to me this afternoon. I was walking through a parking lot and smelled smoke — then discovered it emanating up from the the dried mulch in one of those divider islands that separate the sections of the parking lot.
I promptly stomped on it — but it wasn’t enough. The first tiny triangle of flame flickered into life at my feet.
I nearly panicked, then successfully stomped out the nascent fire — and then I tore into the mulch bed looking for any more signs of it. Then I just hovered and stomped for a while just to make sure. I must have looked like a madman to other people in the parking lot. (And there were several.) Or maybe like someone playacting Godzilla.
Life is weird. The fire’s genesis is a mystery. (I was expecting to find a cigarette butt, but there were none to be found.) Maybe it was ashes from a cigarette smoked by someone who’d already departed the lot?
The Cybertruck.
This is the first time I’ve seen one in the wild.
If you’re my kind of weird, then you immediately thought of the Landmaster vehicle from 1977’s “Damnation Alley.”
Breakfast at The Texas Tavern.
Super-fast, super-cheap, super-good. I even chatted with the cook about comic books.
I do love this little Southern city.
Update — tried to befriend a feisty sparrow on the way home today. But they’re fickle about who they mix with.
“The Butterfly Enchanter,” Aldo Muzzarelli, 2021
Iron, resin and stoneware. Seen in Elmwood Park, Roanoke, Virginia. Photo by Eric Robert Nolan, 2024.
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So I finally located that cache of shorts in storage that I was looking for. Now I can finally dress for the hot weather. Sorry about my blinding white legs, Roanoke.
How white are they? Let’s just say I hope you didn’t throw out your eclipse-viewing glasses.
Aquarium inside Center in the Square, Roanoke, Virginia, May 2024
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