Southwest Virginia blog roll 

• Ask Uttara: Jill Loftis is the founder of Uttara Yoga Studio in Roanoke, and she offers advice for life and living using the ancient tools and techniques of yoga.

• The Artis blog: Jeff Artis is one of Roanoke's community activists, acting as one of the aggressive and persistent voices in Northwest Roanoke.

• Blue Ridge Muse: Take a tour through the Blue Ridge Mountains with Capitol Hill Blue founder and publisher Doug Thompson.

• Diane Cayton-Hakey: This Southwest Virginia blogger writes about humor, fashion, marriage and pets.

• The Curious Skywatcher: John Goss, a Roanoke Times columnist, explores astronomy and the skies above Southwest Virginia.

• Fragments from Floyd: Fred First's blog features "images in words and pixels" that have given birth to a book, "Slow Road Home" -- a memoir of landscape.

• Valerie Garner: Valerie Garner spotlights her Northwest Roanoke neighborhoods.

• Jeremy Hart: This Blacksburg-based realtor provides details on all things real estate in the New River Valley, and perhaps a laugh or two.

• Loose Leaf Notes: Collen Redman writes to synthesize what she's learning, whether it be poetry, a political commentary or a letter to her mother.

• NokeNews: Blogging about Roanoke, evolving through words and pictures.

• The Roanoke Slant: Lars Hagen's blog is intended to be a brief "diary" of some examples of The Roanoke Times' slanted stories.

• SW Virginia law blog: Steve Minor represents plaintiffs and defendants in jury trials and other proceedings in state and federal court in Southwest Virginia.

• Wythe Notes: Blogging the food, culture and folkways of Wythe County, Virginia, and the Mountain Empire.

Weather Journal

3 hours ago

1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County 

2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day

3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys

4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping 

5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football 

6. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust

7. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen

8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible

9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli 

10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area