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!
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.
You are at the photo album for Raleigh Nature - a blog about lore and wildlife inside or close to the beltline. Blog-to-book project by John Dancy-Jones, a Raleigh native.