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JC Raulston Aboretum Poinsettia Show and Haywood Hall Christmas Open House and The Boylan ArtWalk

JC Raulston Aboretum Poinsettia Show

Each Christmas season poinsettia breeders have a chance to show off their work with poinsettias!

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Unique colors or leaves.

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I love these with a bronze tone:

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And tree forms:

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And the poinsettia Christmas tree!

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Haywood Hall Christmas Open House

Haywood Hall is the only original Raleigh House on its original plot. I love the symmetry of the house.

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The bedrooms

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I love this bed.

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The fireplaces.

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The Christmas Tree

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The kitchen building

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The Boylan neighborhood ArtWalk

The Boylan neighborhood was created in 1907 when the Boylan family sold the family farm to land developer. The original house, Mumford Hall, sits on its original location. The first weekend of December the homeowners open their porches to artist.

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The neighborhood is close to downtown Raleigh.

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A great event to cap off a busy day!

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Of course, I made homemade chicken salad sandwiches on English muffins to keep our energy up on a chilly day walking around the neighborhood!

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It was a busy day!

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Fall bloomers

Nights have cooled to the low 60s f and the Fall bloomers are making a showy garden!

Burning Bush:

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Burning Bush

Holly leaved Osmanthus:

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Holly Leaved Osmanthus

Gus:

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Texting Bear – a funny art piece at ArtSpace for the First Friday ArtWalk.;

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Texting Bear

And the International Bluegrass Festival

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International Bluegrass Festival

The arbors are almost clear as the tomatoes and cucumber die.

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And The Borough

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and Wake County Justice Center

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Bazinga!

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Its a lovely time downtown and in the garden !

Usually we have drinks or a bite to eat at The Borough on the corner of Dawson and Morgan Streets near the heart of Downtown Raleigh.

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It’s great people watching and a nice location to begin a walk around Downtown proper and to have a nice bite to eat and a beverage.

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I do love their good food and their option of choosing steamed broccoli in place of fries!

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The red-tail hawks are nesting again in the steeple of the First Baptist Church. Photographers love them!

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As darkness fell and we walked closer to Fayetteville Street we realized that something dealing with anime must be taking place? Kids everywhere dressed: like Japanese anime characters! It is called Anamazement!

Click on the link below for a little video
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The newspaper stated that about 6,000 were attending. This explains why they were EVERYWHERE!

There was a dance party out front if the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center:

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If I was 20 years younger I would have been in the middle of that crowd.

But back to gardening!

This is a beautiful patch of Stachys: Lamb’s ears at JC Raulston Arboretum. Lovely!

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And Lilies…

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And foxtails…..

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and lilies at a big box store….

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🙂

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