http://www.nokenews.com Roanoke Blog - Roanoke, VA Evolving Through Words and Pictures Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:10:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The weather this past weekend in Roanoke was I would say just about as close to perfection for early Fall as anyone could want. Clouds were scarce, but the temperature really wasn't hot like it would've been back in August. I needed to stop by the main Post Office near downtown to ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/10/06/blue-skies-over-roanoke-throughout-the-weekend/ Perhaps someday to be incorporated into a personal memoir, for now just ramblings about my life growing up and living in Roanoke, VA. At one point when I younger it seemed to take forever and then all of the sudden it happened so fast, growing up I mean. It was 1996, ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/10/03/chapter-of-my-life-in-roanoke-getting-my-first-car-and-job/ When I was in the downtown area this past weekend taking pictures of the new art museum, I snapped a few other photos along the way: http://www.nokenews.com/2008/10/01/scenes-of-roanoke-around-town-2/ About a week ago a reader (who currently lives out of town) emailed and asked me to post an update with some recent pictures of the new Taubman Museum of Art, which is scheduled to open in just a little over a month. And finally by late this weekend the rain ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/29/opening-date-of-the-taubman-museum-of-art-getting-closer/ It's been getting cooler outside lately around Roanoke. Days with highs in the lower 70s at best are replacing days previously reaching the 80s and 90s. And at night the temperatures are flirting more and more with the 50s, resulting in some of those crisp mornings associated during times when ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/26/cool-and-rainy-intro-to-fall-but-gas-prices-are-back-to-normal/ Noke News explores parts of Roanoke by foot, equipped with a camera and a notepad, in hopes of learning something new. Perhaps you will too. Just after walking along the bridge at Walnut Avenue, I set out to check out this bridge along South Jefferson Street which was only a short ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/24/exploring-roanoke-jefferson-street-bridge/ I travel along Brandon Avenue just about everyday. Whether going home from work, or coming back across town from Salem the road is a primary route that I use frequently to get around. This weekend I was the passenger in a vehicle coming back towards Roanoke from the Salem area, and ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/22/scenes-of-roanoke-along-brandon-avenue/ A short and informal dissertation about why this blog tends to focus on the bright sides of Roanoke. As readership of this blog has increased modestly over the past several months I have become more and more conscientious about what I post. I don't mean that I censor myself or place ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/19/thoughts-on-being-positive-about-roanoke/ Noke News explores parts of Roanoke by foot, equipped with a camera and a notepad, in hopes of learning something new. Perhaps you will too. I associate Walnut Avenue and this bridge as basically being the foot of the mountain leading up to the Mill Mountain Star. Like other bridges in the ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/17/exploring-roanoke-walnut-avenue-bridge/ Gas prices were up, and so were the temperature and humidty (pictures below) over this past weekend in Roanoke. I may go so far as to call the former the Gas Price Panic of 2008 in Roanoke. By the time I left work in the early evening on Friday, all gas stations I ... http://www.nokenews.com/2008/09/15/the-weekend-of-high-gas-prices-and-hot-weather/