This afternoon, I went back to Sarah Duke Gardens to take pictures. All the pictures are expandable.
The Rose Garden is in front of the entrance, at the center of the Gardens. The two main paths branch off from it.
After taking pictures at Sarah Duke Gardens, I headed to downtown Raleigh. When I got there, I had lunch in a deli that's under the escalator at the Sheraton. Good food, and good music on the radio. Thus fortified, I headed out to follow another of the walks in my guidebook. The only thing was that the streets weren't matching the instructions. I wound up at the Capitol building (which wasn't a part of the walk), and circled around it. I saw lots of statues of dead soldiers and cannons. There was a church on every corner across from the building. The North Carolina Museum of History and Museum of Natural Sciences were north of the building. Some kind of protest (teacher's union?) was taking place in front of the Museum of Natural Sciences. The protesters were playing music and singing, so I listened to them for a while.
Then I went in search of the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh. I found him, looking over the pedestrian mall that I was supposed to be walking on. I picked up the official walk at that point.
I wound up at a set of shops called City Market. It's an old farmer's market that they renovated and filled with shops. Some of the shops are a Tibetan shop, a diner with a piano and a bookshelf full of books, and a jazz and blues place. It also contains a set of artists' studios, called ArtSpace, in which you can observe artists at work. I felt too weird to go into ArtSpace, but I watched one of the artists through the window.
I really liked City Market. The only thing is that most of its stores and restaurants close at 6. Also, the deli that I liked in the Sheraton closed at 4. Where do people who like to go out during the evening go??
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