New forest on the block

Yesterday, as the sun set on the shores of Belltown, three new trees cast there shadows back towards the City's center. Many more will follow in days to come, as the Grove, one of the Olympic Sculpture Park's key design elements, takes on a character of its own.

When the park opens later this year, it will feature meadow, valley, grassland, and shore precincts, all connected by the contiguous "Z" shaped design connecting the corner of Western Ave. and Broad Street to the Myrtle Edwards Park entrance.

More trees and vegetation, characteristic of each of the park's design zones, will be showing up this month (weather allowing), under the direction of Seattle's Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture - and the birds already trying out the branches before the sun went down. More...

Comments

[Bald Fat Guy]

Trees rock.

I bet this is a site that might interest "the Bent" :

http://www.historictrees.org/

[Bald Guy with a Hairy Back]

I can't decide which is cooler in the photo, the trees or the "personal/consumer sized" tractor. If only there was dog in the frame then it would be damn near PERFECT.