The local artist is John Murrill; I think this was completed last year.
My photo here is terribly cropped, but I just loved those tree branches at top and wanted to keep them.
Tag Archives: Roanoke
Stand in the place where you live. (Now face north.)
Check out these awesome Christmas presents I received from some totally cool Roanoke friends — bookstands for displaying some of the publications that have featured my poems. 🙂
Also among the Yuletide goodies were an Irish coin and a piece of Connemara marble — ideal for setting up beside my copy of The Galway Review 12.
Morning in Roanoke, Virginia, January 2025
Campbell Avenue.
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.
Slava Ukraini.
I never noticed this before — there is a Ukrainian flag flying at the Roanoke Valley War Memorial.
I scream for ice cream.
So I noticed recently that there’s a new ice cream joint on South Jefferson Street. (At least I think it’s new; it takes me forever to notice anything.)
It looks auspicous. I might just go looking for a tall chocolate milkshake into which to drown my sorrows.
Outside the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia.
October 2024.
A New Yorker walks into a Chick-fil-A. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.)
It’s those damn weird ketchup packets! They’re too hard to open! Squeezing them as hard as I could always worked out well before!!
Not today.
It looks like I had lunch with a certain former president on one of his bad days. (And you know he’d dodge the bill.)
Just once I’d love to leave the house without embarrassing myself in public.
Retail Ruins.
The Sears people were a proud mercantile empire that dominated much of the 20th Century. The civilization’s ruins still evoke the opulence of a past age.
The Little Gallery on Market Street, Roanoke, Virginia
October 2024.
