Spring Flowerings

Henbit at Lassiter Mill

front yard volunteers

Lady Banks on fern

buttercups on Hodges Road

Atamasca Lily stand on Buckeye Trail

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Spring in Asheville

Above is Reed Creek flowing through The Botanical Garden at Asheville. Adjacent to campus, it holds over 700 plant species. The campus itself has a pretty good show of flowering trees in the spring.

Virginia bluebells

violets

Roadside flowers by the French Broad River

Mayapples by seep

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Fletcher Park's new project

The basin of the new water garden, which will retain and filter the water headed toward Pigeon House Creek.

The driveway of a street that edges Fletcher.

Fletcher Park off St Mary's Street

amphitheatre

upper terrace

red oak

white oak

Fletcher water garden project at top

Fletcher water garden site

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Bike Trails RIP - greenway buffer loss

Here is my image of what Joe Miller described as the mohawk effect

Looking from the new development at the south end of Six Forks.

The wholesale destruction of the old farm between Atlantic Acenue and Capital Boulevard, north of hodges. The tent below is home to quite a few fellows, I'm told, and is generating the trash pile below that.

trash pile near Atlantic Ave swamp tent

troublesome hillside deck off Capital Blvd

bog behind Atlantic Ave. swamp, from greenway deck

Atlantic-Capital greenway, looking toward beltline ramp

Lonnie Poole golf course construction

The site for the new golf course on NCSU's Centennial Campus. These hillsides surround Lake Raleigh and a wooded tract which is a university study area.

Above,from the end of Centennial Blvd looking north. Below, from the magnet school area looking south.

Above, looking toward south Lake Wheeler Road. Below, the swath closest to the lake, next to the natural study area close to Trailwood.

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at The Natural History of Raleigh

Buckeye at Milburnie

Boulders at Buckeye

Crabtree Creek at Milburnie Road

Oak gall

oak gall

shelf mushrooms

slime mold