Snap o' the Day
Snap o' the Day: Chilling in Sugar Hollow
Published on Apr 27th, 2009
4 comments The north fork of the Moormans River in Shenandoah National Park provided a cool way to deal with the weekend's blistering temps, which reached 91 Saturday and 89 Sunday, the day this image was...
Snap o' the Day: Median fleurs
Published on Apr 26th, 2009
1 comments Tulips and other flowers were blooming the afternoon of April 23 in this Preston Avenue median, with a recently renovated Wendy's fast-foodery in the background.
Snap o' the Day: Ivy Bonfire
Published on Apr 25th, 2009
1 comments A bonfire roars Friday night at an outdoor party at an unidsclosed location near Ivy.
Snap o' the day: Python on the Mall
Published on Apr 24th, 2009
19 comments Scott Shifflett creates a little chaos on the Mall with a 14-foot, 14-year old  Albino Burmese Python named, appropriately enough, Chaos. "He'd be even longer if I had a bigger cage for him," said...
Snap o' the day: Garden Week in Crozet
Published on Apr 23rd, 2009
24 comments April 18-25 is Historic Garden Week in Virginia, and while these tulips in Crozet are not on the official tour, thanks to the magic of snap o' the day, you get to see them anyway. PHOTO BY MARY JANE...
Snap o' the Day: Ivy mail scorpion
Published on Apr 23rd, 2009
2 comments A once-drab row of mailboxes at the Ivy Hill apartment complex along Ivy Road was recently transformed into a work of public art in the form of a scorpion. "Kudos," says Ivy resident Mary Ann...
Snap o' the Day: Making it ped-friendly
Published on Apr 22nd, 2009
5 comments A City crew heats the pavement at the outlet of Old Preston Avenue at Market Street at 8:20am on April 22 in preparation for the application of crosswalk stripes. A week earlier, a crew ripped up the...
Snap o' the Day: Pond child
Published on Apr 20th, 2009
2 comments Less than an hour after a Tornado Watch was declared, a child peers over a small private pond near Ivy. The National Weather Service, which records .84 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, is...
Snap o' the Day: Beer bong at DMB
Published on Apr 19th, 2009
8 comments A Dave Matthews Band fan in the John Paul Jones Arena parking lot speedily downs a pre-concert beverage Saturday, courtesy of a beer bong.
Snap o' the Day: Kammauff Field
Published on Apr 18th, 2009
2 comments The Elks team takes the field Saturday morning on Korbon Field at the season's grand opening for McIntire Little League. In the background, up on the hill, a crew prepares to unveil the League's new...
Snap o' the day: the DMB Armada
Published on Apr 17th, 2009
6 comments Five mammoth tour buses  were parked in the Omni Hotel lot downtown Friday morning in preparation for the April 17 and 18 Dave Matthews Band shows at JPJ. The tricked out buses– at least one...
Snap o' the Day: Lonely chairs
Published on Apr 15th, 2009
0 comments The Chair Swing sat empty for most of Monday night, April 13, the fifth night of the Dogwood Festival carnival, which then closed, due to weather the following night. "See you Wednesday," says the...
Snap o' the day: Prom time at AHS
Published on Apr 14th, 2009
2 comments We're not sure what the theme is for Albemarle High's April 18 prom, but one message seems pretty clear from this crashed carcass of a car in front of the school: Don't drink and drive.
Snap o' the Day: Unstrangled tree
Published on Apr 13th, 2009
0 comments As the $7.5 million Downtown Mall resurfacing chugs toward its early May completion, some visible signals of earlier neglect have become evident. Here, a new frame for a tree grate gives this willow...
Snap o' the Day: Freedom!
Published on Apr 10th, 2009
1 comments The student newspapers at UVA and Virginia Tech won a First Amendment Award from the Virginia Press Association for just saying no to an ABC Board ban on campus newspaper alcohol advertising....
Snap o' the Day: Rugby Road morning
Published on Apr 8th, 2009
4 comments We realize that this photo, shot Tuesday morning from a car (well, a Jeep actually), is nothing too special. But we just got tired of seeing that knife-wielding PETA chicken as our "Snap o' the Day...
Snap o' the day: Knife-wielding chicken seeks revenge
Published on Mar 30th, 2009
5 comments People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have some of the more memorable protests around– we still haven't forgotten the naked protester from 2006. On March 30, chicken-suited Kristina...
Snap o' the Day: House of hope
Published on Mar 27th, 2009
0 comments Celebrating a March 26 groundbreaking are architect Fred Wolf, film director/project creator Tom Shadyac, and two prospective visitors of the First Street Church Project, Willie Cox and Freddie...
Snap o' the Day: Who's on third?
Published on Mar 26th, 2009
0 comments With lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s, it may not yet feel like spring, but Little League games have begun, including this one between the orange-shirted Hobbytown USA (formerly sponsored by...
Snap o' the day: Smoke on Sixth Street
Published on Mar 24th, 2009
0 comments Smoke billowed into the sky late in the afternoon of Monday, March 23, after a taxicab parked behind Premo Auto Body and the Yellow Cab dispatch station on the 1500 block of Sixth Street S.E. caught...
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