5/5/26
This will be a short post, mostly just some pics from my fun time visiting my aunt and uncle and their two dogs near Raleigh, North Carolina.
I took the overnight train from Orlando, and arrived in the morning to the Cary station, where my uncle picked me up.
The next day, he took me to Raleigh’s Dix Park, named after Dorothea Dix, a social reformer who advocated on behalf of poor mentally ill people. It was a beautiful spring day to be out in that spacious place.
The park is host to one of Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s many installations of troll sculptures, made from recycled materials. (I had known about the Portland-area troll for a year or so before I began my travels this past fall, but I hadn’t found the time to get out to the west side of town to see it. Watch for a future post, though!)
Four of the five trolls in this park were hidden in wooden areas, which made them fun to discover.
Most of the rest of my four days with my aunt and uncle were spent quietly, catching up and talking about my travels, the dogs, my aunt’s beautiful art, and the like.
One extra cool bit of magic: I saw an anole at their house! I’ve visited my aunt and uncle a number of times over the years, including this past fall—and I did know from my aunt’s Facebook posts that sometimes they see anoles there—but I had never personally encountered one.
After all the “lizard magic” I experienced this winter in Florida, it was really cool to see this one on the front fence. I even dared to dream that I might see a lizard in Virginia, though that seemed extremely unlikely. (Both Virginia and Oregon apparently are home to a few native lizards, but in all my time in both states—the vast majority of my life—I have never seen a lizard in the wild.)
Next up: a beautiful bicycle trail in Richmond, Virginia.
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