Buzzzzzz

We found these bee boxes in the color garden at the JC Raulston arboretum.  They were quiet on a chilly winter day, but come summer I'll bet they're humming.  These boxes are for solitary bees.  They do not live in a colony, but they are important polinators.  Who knew!?

Red house

🎜  There's a Red House over yonder
That's where my baby stays
There's a Red House over yonder, baby
That's where my baby stays

Well, I ain't been home to see my baby,
in ninety nine and one half days.  🎝

🎜🎜🎝🎝🎝🎜🎜🎝🎝

The farm house at Horse Shoe Farm Nature Preserve. 

 Is this the house Jimi Hendrix sang about???
The park sits in a horse shoe bend in the Neuse River.  There is river on three sides of the park.  The farm house is being renovated and looks out over the large field.  You can walk all around the fields, and then down to the Neuse River Greenway which connects with the other greenways in Raleigh.  

Please wall

This wall is in the amphitheater at the NC Museum of Art.  I especially like how adding "please" to the beginning of a sentence changes the tone: "Please don't litter," "Please use only as directed," "Please don't let history repeat itself," "Please don't fight fire with fire."  I think we should all say please more often!

Lizard wall Durant Nature Center

Lizards bask on the sunny wall at Durant Nature Park.  Nearly every day you can find them sitting on the wall in the sun.  I took this picture of the one lizard and didn't see the other until I enlarged the picture.

Corner of White Street and Elm, Wake Forest, NC

This scupture  sits on a street corner in Wake Forest.  

Knitting as a subversive activity...?

I marched in the Raleigh Women's March last Saturday and was amazed at all the "Pussyhats".  All hand knit all from a similar pattern.  I'm a knitter, how could I have missed this???!

I found the pattern on Ravelry (with thousands of projects dedicated to the march) and decided to make a few for future activities.   There was plenty of pink yarn here in Raleigh although I've read that it was sold out in many cities.  I also read that one knitting shop in Tennesee posted that knitters who were going to use the yarn for pussyhats were not welcome to buy from their shop....Who knew knitting could be subversive?

The Cotton Company, Wake Forest, NC

This is the window in the door of The Cotton Company, White Street, Wake Forest, NC.  Inside it's a marketplace for small independent craftspeople.  It's like going to a craft fair without the crowd.