Raleigh is beautiful. It's like living in a park - lots of green trees, and every time I step outside I hear all kinds of birds. Sometimes I see them - ones I don't recognize, for the most part.
Lots of people walk here - why not, when you live in a park? Driving out here I noticed people getting fatter and fatter - more morbidly obese people than I've ever seen. But they are not so fat in Raleigh - I guess because they walk a lot.
The weather has been moderate - cool and moist, with more cloudy days than I've seen since I moved out of Seattle. Yesterday we had a gentle rain all day. Today I've felt a few drops, but it's mostly just been cloudy, near 70. The temperature has been between 60 and 80 the whole time I've been here - very nice, in a park.
The downside is driving in a park. The roads mostly wind around, and you can't SEE anything except trees! Even with the GPS (which sometimes gets its left and right mixed up - well, so do the best of us...), I've had trouble finding things because there are TREES everywhere. Fully leafed-out trees. Great for a park, lousy for navigation.
I'll have to think of all this when I'm walking at home, where the dirt road (you knew that from looking at my car, right?) sometimes has dust within an hour of a "rain" or "snow" (quotes, because this year has been SO dry).
The pictures are of my Dad's back yard, by the way. This is what I see when I open the blinds on the french door in my room.
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