Downtown Raleigh from a distance

Raleigh has only a few big buildings, the PNC building is the tallest.

The skyline from Dorothea Dix Park.

Dorothea Dix Park

Practicing his disc game, at Dorothea Dix park.

Dorothea Dix Park is the largest park in the City of  Raleigh.  

The park has been the site of a plantation, an insane asylum ( see the history here)  and now is planned to be a destination park, with an outdoor concert venue, a fishing pond, a "hang out lawn", a water playground, dog park, "Hammock glade", and possibly a boutique hotel, food court and brewery...Something for everyone!

More sunflowers

OK, I couldn't resist posting a few more sunflower pictures.  

A Common Buckeye butterfly ( here) comes in to visit a flower.

It didn't stay long.

I'll follow the sun

It's sunflower time at Dorothea Dix park.  Every year the City of Raleigh plants a field of sunflowers.

People come to enjoy the flowers,

Take selfies

And enjoy the view

When the show is done, the city harvests the flowers and turns them into biofuel for city vehicles.