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.
Raleigh Nature posts on Pigeon house Branch.