IMG_0485 -  Workers busy modifying a channel in the Arboretum to make room for a water Feature. Dan Stern , Curator of the Arboretum, states that plans have been in the works every since a donor last year stepped forward expressing an interest in  placing a water feature in the Arboretum. The new feature will display a fountain with cascading water and a meandering channel, to give a more natural look to the arboretum. 

IMG_0489-0492, 0497,0498. Robert Gordon, know as Bob to his friends, volunteers because, as he states, "to add value and to be out and about with young people, people who are still thinking".  "when you get to my age, it's really easy to do nothing" Bob First started Volunteering at the arboretum after his wife died, and was looking for an outlet. 

If interested in volunteering call the North Carolina Botanical Gardens.