The Sunken Road back gate will be open from 8 am – 5 pm on October 21st in support of a Career Day/ Employer Forum at the University.

Thursday may be back on the chasing menu.  The 12Z runs of both the WRF and GFS have a touch of CAPE showing at 18Z tomorrow, with rather insane shear values (directional and speed) given the close passage of the low center just to our west. …

Delaney scored two 3rd place ribbons in art, I scored some pictures, and a nice night out with part of the family. The teenage son is apparently too cool for the Fair. Although had he known about the Frisbee dogs… The rest of the story is in the pictures

This past weekend, we checked out the city’s first annual Via Colori street art festival, an event that brought together artists and performers in a weekend devoted to creating chalk artwork on the street. Unlike most art exhibits, this event focuses…

Storms happened at all points of the compass with respect to the Fredericksburg area, but absolutely nothing occurred within chasing distance.  In fact, we missed out on most of the rain that dumped copious amounts of moisture around the region, b…

…if Internet access had been available where I was. And really, I’m not upset that it wasn’t. For 40 glorious hours I couldn’t even call my wife, let alone post to Facebook or Twitter. When was the last time you were cut off completely like that? It’s liberating. I need to do it more often. [...]

I took advantage of the downtime in the woods this weekend to re-read The Lost Coin. It was just as good as the first time I read it – 8 years ago.

Last night it started raining at about 10 PM. Luckily we had retired to the tent at about 9:45 PM, and I was in the process of crushing Breck at cribbage when the raindrops started falling. Then we split two games of Statis-Pro baseball, with the person playing the 2009 Red Sox beating the person [...]

From Grayson Highlands On the way home from Mount Rogers today Breck and I stopped by Appomattox Court House National Historic Site to visit the scene of Lee’s surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia. That act effectively ended the Civil War. Fighting continued here and there for a few weeks, but with Lee out, [...]

Jason Mayland is an up-and-coming filmmaker and producer. A man of many talents, his movie After Dinner was recently shown at DC Shorts Film Festival where I met him and began a conversation about independent film.  Currently working on a yet-to-be released television show, he took the time follow up with me and discuss his [...]