Yesterday was a day custom made for Antonio Vivaldi, here in Blacksburg. It as 65°, sunny, breezy, and generally fabulous. Today, it is snowing.
Category Archives: Blacksburg
Home again, home again.
Every time that I’m gone from Blacksburg for more than a few days — Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break over the past 10 days — it is such a disappointment to come back here. Blacksburg and Virginia Tech aren’t bad, but, for me, they comprise a world that has had all sense of possibility and interest …
Hula hoop crossing.
March 4, 2004, 1:14pm. Altered street sign on Virginia Tech campus.
Whoomph.
From 5pm until 9pm tonight, we got 5.5″ of snow here in Blacksburg. It’s like a whole different climate down here in the New River Valley.
Snow day.
Although it snows here in Blacksburg pretty regularly, I’ve lived here for a brief enough time that I’m impressed by the 5″ that’s fallen today. It’s only 12° out, so none of the melting chemicals on the roads are having any effect. Another inch or so is slated to fall tonight and then, tomorrow, it’ll …
Snow.
In the winter, it seems to snow every day or two here in Blacksburg, at least a little. It snowed yesterday morning, and it snowed again early this morning. Just enough to dust everything white, in odd little stripy clumps, as if a ticker-tape parade had just gone through town, only I missed it.
Call the Secret Service.
January 19, 2003, 3:45pm. Virginia Tech, caught in the act of architectural counterfeiting.
Those bright old college days.
My neighbor must have returned from vacation. I can tell by the way that it feels like an unbalanced washing machine is marching its way across my floor. Thankfully, I’m no longer limited by my own selection of retaliation music — I have GarageBand, and I know how to use it.
First snow of the season.
Here it is — our first snow of the season. Now that I’m living where the snowfall rocks, we’ve got 4″ so far, with another 4″ in the forecast. Plus, another snowstorm is forecast to hit late tomorrow. Between not having a car and being too busy preparing for exams to go anywhere anyhow, I …
Snow weenies.
I woke up this morning to find, as forecast, that a couple of inches of snow had fallen. After a warm bowl of oatmeal, I suited up and trekked across campus to my 9:30am class. The streets and sidewalks were clear, so I was rather surprised to arrive right on time, only to find that …