My cellphone camera is truly, categorically awful when it comes to shooting at night. Sorry, folks.
Campbell Avenue at Roanoke City Market.
Salem Avenue.
Jefferson Street.
Tag Archives: Virginia
Roanoke, VA, July 2021
Elmwood Park.
Sorry about the shaky cam. And my cellphone camera is obviously not high quality.
Fountain beside Hampton Inn & Suite (facing Church Avenue).
Looking north up Market Street.
The Roanoke Times.
A Banksyesque painting in front of Wok-ology on the corner of Campbell Avenue and Jefferson Street.
Views from Gainsboro Road Overpass, Roanoke, VA
One look at that bright air and you can tell how hot it is here in my little Bible Belt city. Those townhouses remind me of Charleston, South Carolina’s “Rainbow Row.” Or maybe an Edward Hopper painting — I may have said so before, but this entire city is indeed Hopperesque.
I think the final frame of that second video is really nice, with the American flag appearing before the sunset over the mountains. I certainly didn’t plan it that way — that was just the spot where I happened to stop running to shoot video.
Vicinity of Williamson Road around downtown Roanoke, VA
July 2021.
Roanoke used to be called “Big Lick,” of all things.
This second one I’m a little proud of — that’s the Mill Mountain Star that you see in the background at left.
Looking southwest.
I found Area 51!!! And it was taken over by the Black Oil Alien from “The X-Files.”
BUK THE SYSTEM!!
Great news! I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press will feature a flash fiction story of mine in the third and final volume of “Buk 100.” The publisher is based in Germany, and produces the “Buk 100” commemorative chapbook series as an homage to German-American writer Charles Bukowski. The first two volumes were beautifully crafted and filled with outstanding contributions from around the world. Thanks once again to Matthias Krueger for including my work.
The story is entitled “Bill and I,” and is my stab at spinning a Bukowski-esque vignette. I’ll share ordering details when they become available.
By GFreihalter – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18740517
Lotta big flakes in this town.
These are just a couple of more old Roanoke, Virginia snow pics I found chilling in my hard drive. Look at the size of those flakes. There are times when the snow falls out of the sky here in clumps.
NOLAN TOURS.
Care to visit my gorgeous little Bible Belt city? I’ve been making these videos since 2018.
They’re not professional-grade or anything — like those Youtube walking tours of Athens or Rome. I have both a shaky hand and a shaky understanding of how to film things. Hell, in a couple of these videos I inexplicably kinda forgot how to walk. But you can still see how perfect my adopted home is.
I actually was a tour guide for a while when I was a college student. I was actually really good at it; it was back during the time before I hated people.
Elmwood Park, Roanoke, VA, June 2021
This is Elmwood Park and its amphitheater in Roanoke, VA. I apologize for the shaky-cam. I am also aware that “open-air amphitheater” is probably a redundancy, so I’m sorry for that too. I’m not even sure that I can spell “amphitheater” without autocorrect.
A cannon on the Chancellorsville battlefield, photo by Bryant Midura, 2009
Chancellorsville, Virginia.
BLM Platinum / Public domain.
Jefferson Street Overpass, Roanoke, Virginia
June 2021. Southeast.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 