The Arboretum

Today is the Arboretum's 75th birthday. Seattle for all it's shortcomings and the string of lousy mayors, has a couple things to be proud of, one is the Public Market and second are the parks. The open space within the city is really quite nice and really is probably what I miss the most about the city (or at least in this blog post). The Arboretum almost didn't get its' 75th birthday. From the 1950's through the late 1970's, the Arboretum was set to be bulldozed for the Thomson Expressway, which would have connected Renton with Bothell on west side of Lake Washington. Whereas the Thomson would have assisted in overcoming one of Seattle's shortcomings it would have ruined a really nice place.

So tonight a couple pictures from in or around the Arboretum.

Dan