A really nice alumna of mine supplied a few more pictures of the destruction of Alvey Hall, after I posted about it yesterday. (Thanks again, Shelby!)
As I mentioned then, the Mary Washington College dorm was actually torn down in 2021.
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They leveled my old dorm at Mary Washington College.
No, it wasn’t due to the infamy of me having once lived there. I have not yet fully scandalized a building.
This article is from two years ago — but I just saw this today when an alum shared it.
WOW, the memories I have of that place.
Alvey Hall Demolition at University of Mary Washington
I did NOT see Dad coming.
I told the nice young woman who cut my hair that I went to school in Fredericksburg. She said she thought I might have gone to high school with her dad.
For some reason, that made me feel SO old.
Update — people on Facebook have now informed me that the phrase “nice young woman” is employed only by old people.
Just a tiny abandoned train trestle over a tiny creek.
Off Brandon Avenue SW. I thought it was neat.
Leave it to … beaver?
I’ll be honest with you … the jury is still out with me about whether this is actually a beaver dam in the Roanoke River. Is it possible that this is just a collection of detritus?
One or two of my Southern friends have assured me that it indeed looks like a dam. But I’m not sure if they’re messing with me or not.
I know I saw movement down there that one night in May when I passed over it on the bridge. But it was dark.
And I realized earlier tonight that I could have been seeing another group of animals entirely. After I took the pictures you see below, I passed over that bridge yet again, and I got excited when I saw a critter down there. I grabbed my phone and started shooting video … until I recognized the distinctive striped tail of a raccoon. Little masked bandit had me fooled. He even saw me looming after him, and shot me what looked like an embarrassed look before scampering off.
I love my little valley town.
I think it gets prettier the longer I stay here.
Nifty little sunroom at Roanoke Public Library.
Eric tested, Nolan approved.
South Jefferson Street, July 2023.
People still say “nifty,” right?
“In darkest night …”
Oh! I saw my first fireflies of the year last night. 🙂 ❤ South of the city. They’ve been my favorite harbinger of summer since I was just about 18 and they would silently glitter en masse around Lake of the Woods in Orange County, VA. They were like a broad blanket of blinking emerald stars that caressed the darkened treeline.
Fireflies are the Green Lantern Corps of the insect universe, people. Respect them.
Railyards north of Campbell Avenue SE, Roanoke, Virginia, June 2023
USAC Amateur Road National Championships in Roanoke, Virginia
June 17, 2023. Franklin Road.
If you look closely at the video — you can see that the winner is cheating. The guy in the lead is CLEARLY riding a motorcycle and not a bicycle.
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