Marsh Creek is a long tributary of Crabtree creek that runs over 5 miles from Spring Forest and Falls of the Neuse road SE to Crabtree at Yonkers Road beside the Beltline. With a quite unauspiscious beginning, it makes its way through a variety of neighborhoods before creating a large wetland where it meets Crabtree Creek. These pictures follow the creek from its headwaters (seen just below) to Brentwood Park, just west of Capital Boulevard.
Edge of landfill meadow at east end of Buckeye Trail.
baby beeches under pines
Back home in Oakwood!
Pigeon House Branch is a much-abused creek that drains the northwestern quadrant of downtown Raleigh. It criss-crosses Capital Boulevard from Peace Street to Crabtree Boulevard, and these pictures trace that path down to its mouth at Crabtree Creek.
The stone culvert just north of Peace Street.
Pigeon House is under there somewhere!
The 42 " pipe that delivers water from Fletcher Park to Pigeon House Branch.
Pigeon House between Capital and West Street.
Pigeon House Branch at Johnny's Motel on Capital.
Pigeon at Flea Market on Capital Blvd. 
Pigeon House under Crabtree Blvd at Capital.
Pigeon House at Sherwin-Williams on Crabtree Blvd.
Pigeon House Branch beside Crabtree Blvd., across from greenway parking lot.
At the easternmost tip of Raleigh's greenways, Buckeye Trail at Milburnie Road, the young beeches, which keep their old leaves through the winter, look like luminaries spread through the flat lowland off this section of greenway. These pictures don't really capture the effect - I'll keep trying!
Young beech tree
Fletcher Park's new water garden was recently finished.
The mallard ducks have already found the lowest and largest pool, which is part of a sequence designed to slow and filter water headed down to Pigeon House Branch.
Culvert feeds from baseball field.
The "spring-fed creek." (seep)
Irrigated lily garden.
Here is where the water exits down to Pigeon House Branch.
Pigeon House Branch west of Capital Blvd.
The Redbird sculpture at Fletcher Park.
A great blue heron browses a granite outcrop on Pigeon House Creek at Capital Boulevard. Pigeon House has headwaters at Edna Metz Park and Cameron Village and follows Capital Boulevard east after being culverted through much of its path through Cameron Park and down Johnson Street.
Notice the streamwatch unit here at Cameron Village. Underground are the headwaters.
Edna Metz Park
Looking east from Edna Metz.
Pigeon House flows under a porch in Cameron Park.
Pigeon House beside Johnson Street.
West Street and Dortch by the city salt barn.
Wade Ave. ramp off Capital
Fletcher Park's waters join Pigeon House.
Capital Boulevard light tower
Pigeon House Creek at Watkins Grill on Louisburg Rd.
I posted these deer pictures at Raleigh Nature as an antidote to some ranting about Ward Transformers and the PCB mess. Below is more from the trip that provided the images.
Cara and I camped at Doughton Park this August, browsing the Parkway up just
Above is a view of monandnocks rising from the Piedmont as seen from the Blue Ridge escarpment. Below is a selection of images from our hikes, including a large set of mushrooms.
a pair of walking sticks
Fallon Park, just northeast of Five Points, and sloping with its long narrow shape down to Crabtree Creek at Anderson Drive, is a long necklace in Raleigh's park jewels. The remains of a small mill structure lend even more interest to a wonderful rockfall along the creek that defines the park.
The headwaters of Fallon Creek arise in the middle of the very plush neighborhood
The smaller rocks of the upper park.
greenway bridge and mill site
Rain from Tropical Storm Hannah flooded Crabtree Creek at Hodges Road and Atlantic Avenue. The creek also submerged several section of the Middle Creek section of the Raleigh greenway.
At the back of the picture is a greenway bridge. You are looking at greeenway - Crabtree Creek is to the right of the trees, out of the picture.
Ths city worker was gauging the rate of the water's rise.
This structure protects the greenway as it passes under a railroad line.
This meadow givess access to the greenway beside the Longbranch.
Redbird sculpture at Fletcher Park
The new water park being constructed at Fletcher Park between Glenwood Avenue and St. Mary's Street just south of Wade Avenue will filter and slow water as it flows east toward Pigeon House Creek.
Construction for water park
Above is the future outlet to Pigeon House Creek
