Northwest: A Garden

Bellevue Botanical Garden

Bellevue, WA

Bellevue has a lot of money. Excessive amounts of money. This is no secret. Bellevue also has a large urban garden. A lot of cities have large urban gardens. Not all of those cities with large urban gardens have excessive amounts of money. Based on absolutely no research I have concluded that there is no direct correlation between cities with excessive amounts of money having large urban gardens. However, there is a correlation between cities with excessive amounts of money and bridges to nowhere. You see, buried deep within the Bellevue Botanical Garden is a beautiful suspension bridge.  It spans a deep enough ravine and is something you don't usually find in a park such as this. However, it basically goes no where. You cross the bridge only to find an 1/8th of a mile loop trail that circles back to the bridge. It's a great walk through a wonderful inner city garden with a bridge that really is a fascinating engineering gem. But the bridge goes no where. Not literally, but basically. 

 

 

Seattle: $3.50

There exists this profound little story about how sometimes we don't always get our way in life. It centers around our protagonist, me, not getting to stay home from school due to sickness because the antagonist, my mother, out-smarted me and called my bluff. In other words, I got parented. She somehow knew I wasn't indeed sick. But instead of just calling me out for being a snotty little faking lier and a disappointment to the family, she plainly noted how if I was too sick for school I was also too sick to attend my schools annual 50's dance that evening. Mom subtly went all in and all i could do was fold. If I had my way, I would have been able to skip out on school and still attend the dance that night with my friends. Instead, I got to go to the dance but also had to endure a day of public education. Moral: sometimes we don't always get our way in life.

This brings me to the picture above. You can see it depicts somewhat of a sunset off in the distance with the majestic 520 bridge featured prominently vanishing out over Lake Washington. I was hoping the sunset would explode and cover the sky in vivid, bright colors. It tried, but in the end failed to live up to my hopes and dreams. It was descent, but it wasn't what I wanted. Good thing I learned as a young child that we don't always get our way in life.