Sunday afternoon...............visit to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.......the very interesting Dinosaur Exhibit showing recent new discoveries. Will now add 'Jurassic Park' to my Netflix Queue. This exhibit, viewed alongside a granddaughter, has tweaked more interest - I want to learn more about these long extinct creatures.
On leaving the museum, we walked through downtown. Surrounded by cranes and scaffolding hoisting steel and concrete, new skyscraper tall buildings rise from the pavements and squares. We searched for the old buildings, the brick walls, wood window frames, and lovingly painted trims. They are there, the ones that survived the wreckers ball.
Briggs Hardware Building - c. 1814
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh - 2008 We found a little restaurant inside the old, now extinct - like the dinosaurs, Raleigh Times newspaper building. The tin ceilings, mottled plaster walls and peeling wood remains - the character and history draws us in................we love the old.
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Jasmin Against Old Walls - Raleigh Times Bldg. Raleigh 2008
Color Change Photo of chair taken by Jasmin in the restaurant. Old or new?
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