RDU Terminal 2

People are usually pretty crazed running for flights or dragging home from a long trip.  But if you look up, Terminal 2 at Raleigh-Durham Airport is very beautiful.

Tulip Poplar

The tulip poplar trees have strange flowers.  They do look like tulips, but they grow very high up on the tree so they're hard to spot.  Usually all you see are the flowers after they fall to the ground.  I have to get way above them to look down and take the picture.  These flowers were probably 20 feet in the air.  

Ready to Pop

 The magnolias are finally ready to pop open.  The trees look like  Christmas trees with candles ready to be lit.  A few buds are starting to open.  You can already smell the sweet lemony smell.

PNC building downtown

Looking up at the PNC building from Fayetteville street it looked like it was part of the sky.

garden sculpture #3

I had to look at this one for a while before I saw how clever it was. 

Which Quadrant?

This sign was on the wall in a local high school.  My guess is that they're trying to get the kids to work in quadrant II although, as a high school teacher, I was always working in quadrant III.  Now that I'm retired, I'm very happy in quadrant IV.

Marbles

Raleigh has an amazing children's museum called Marbles.  It's right downtown on Moore Square.  Their philosophy is that children learn through play.  And the kids do play!  The noise level can get unbearable for an adult at times.