Our Blacksburg Ghost Story near The Blue Ridge Parkway and a Gorilla...

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House in Blacksburg Original Oil Painting has been sold



Since I have been blogging about New River Valley Ghost stories lately I thought this painting would be a good one to put up. I had no intentions of painting a ghost house but the dissolution of form in the warm and cool colors, in a way, gives the impression of an other-worldly place.

Our Short Blacksburg Ghost Story

I am a very level-headed person and extremely skeptical of anything that is considered to be supernatural. I took a silly Big Bang test a while back to see which character I am like on the show, and, of course, it was Sheldon. My husband says I remind him of Spock from Star Trek.

Anyway, having said all that, I must say I have had three strange experiences in my life that I cannot explain.

Here is one of them.

Years ago my husband and I needed to get a larger apartment at the complex we lived at in Blacksburg, VA. The manager said F-67 was open and we grabbed it. They were having a hard time renting it and we couldn't see why. They were all alike.

Shortly after we moved in we were resting on our bed when we heard, very clearly, a voice that seemed to be coming from the closet. The word was Rachel in a strange voice. It happened a few more times and we just ignored it. We never heard it again.

The only logical explanation would be that someone that could throw their voice like a ventriloquist was outside and playing a trick on us. We will never know!





Rain Pond, Huckleberry Line Trail in Blacksburg Original Painting has been sold


This pond no longer exists. It was at the Blacksburg Airport when my husband and I were first married. We would walk out to it every Sunday afternoon. That is such a pleasant memory.





Rock Garden Original 32"x40" Professionally Framed Oil Painting $2720.00


This painting was inspired by the beautiful flower gardens at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA



Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I try very hard to avoid problems on the internet. I know that people can copy a site and make it look like an official request for a phishing attempt. I know that people will try to get money from me by claiming they want to buy a painting and I need to pay their private shipping company out of the excess money on the check they send me. Of course, the check is phoney and I am out the shipping money.

I have never fallen for that one and never will.

I do download some sites that are designed to help me improve my art sales. They look perfectly okay to me.

My husband is much more cautious than I am and he says I would download a gorilla and let it walk around the house! I would not! We already have enough monkeys around here.

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