Landscape lettuce

Ornamental purple cabbage at the New Hanover County Arboretum on Oleander Drive in Wilmington, NC.

Shelter

Mobile home community on Flemington Road on the outskirts of Wilmington, NC

Winter shimmer

Sun sparkles on the Cape Fear River shoreline at Carolina Beach State Park in Carolina Beach, NC

The Vinelands

Mass of tangled vines form a thicket in the Acorn Branch neighborhood in Wilmington, NC.

Postcard-ready Gazeebo

Gazebo at the Porter's Neck Medical Complex on North Market Street in Wilmington, NC

Water, water, everywhere

Whipser Creek in the rain in the Porter's Neck area north of Wilmington, NC.

Row houses

Carleton Place condominums in College Acres next to the University of North Carolina at Wilminton, NC.

Trinkets on a tree

What I call a "whimsy tree" on the north end of Wrightsville Beach, NC.  This photo was taken last March (2008).  I wonder if it still there.

Repose

Looking across the marina at Carolina Beach, NC

Pink blush

Pink Camillia at the New Hanover County Arboretum on Oleander Drive in Wilmington, NC