Another Vollis Simpson Whirligig

This immense whirligig sits in the NC Museum of Art sculpture park.  Vollis Simpson, a North Carolina farmer, built these creations and put them up at his farm.  He became famous and was declaired to be a visionary artist of the junkyard by the New York Times at his death in 2013. 

Camp Polk

This smoke stack is all that's left of Camp Polk.  The land is now the North Carolina Museum of Art.  

Confederate soldiers trained here at Camp Mangum, which later became Camp Polk, a World War 1 tank training facility.  In 1920 it became Camp Polk Prison Farm, which initially incarcerated primarily African American men.  The infamous prison farm became a youth detention center and later was shut down, and sat vacant for many years.  In 2001 the land was reassigned to the museum.

Cedar Waxwings

These guys came visiting in huge numbers earlier this spring.  They flocked in our holly tree that was loaded with berries.  They would swoop in and then, for no apparent reason, the whole group would sweep back out.  They make a high pitched whistle, and you can hear them more than see them as they hide in the trees.

Backyard visitor

If we hadn't gotten close, we never would have seen this little guy.  He was hidden under a bush way in the back of the yard.  His mom had parked him there.  She was probably nearby watching.  From what I found out, baby deer do not have any scent, so they are safer away from the mother so predators can't sniff them out.

Mom must have seen us looking at him and come back for him, because a little bit later he was gone.

Sunflowers Cafe

Sunflowers Cafe at 8 West Peace street used to be a Hardee's.  The shape of the building is the same, but that's about all.  Their goal is to "serve you the freshest, tastiest food we can with a smile." 

Old bottles?

They look old, but they may just be dirty, used in a demonstration at the Walnut Creek Wetlands park near downtown Raleigh.

Street Pianos

Artsplosure supported all the arts.  There were "Art Pianos" scattered all up and down Fayetteville street.